Candidates for governor debate what ails education

Mike Kaszuba & Corey Mitchell:

Debating education for the first time, Minnesota's three major candidates for governor on Friday differed significantly over how to repair what they described as an ailing system.

Republican Tom Emmer, using the occasion to disclose more of his overall budget plan, said he would hold education spending to existing levels and move funds used for child care programs to those that would prepare children for kindergarten. Emmer said he would delay repaying $1.4 billion owed to the state's public schools until 2014.

DFL candidate Mark Dayton, in contrast, pledged to increase education money every year as governor and repay the funds owed, while the Independence Party's Tom Horner stressed the need for innovation.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 13, 2010 1:42 AM
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