More Minnesota school districts asking voters for funding this fall

More Minnesota school districts are looking to local taxpayers this November to prop up the costs of keeping school in session.

Districts across the state rely on a mix of federal, state and local money to fund school personnel salaries, technology purchases, building upkeep and renovations and other education programming costs. More schools, however, are leaning on local tax dollars to fund larger portions of their budgets.

Referendums are becoming more and more common as districts look to local residents to pay for schools, said Kirk Schneidawind, executive director of the Minnesota School Boards Association, which tracks the number of districts that put referendum questions on November ballots each year.

“It has become such a standard operating procedure for our school districts, I hate to say it,” Schneidawind said. “You need to invest money to make those (education) opportunities available.”



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