Early education assistance gets second chance in Legislature

Frank Forsberg, chair of the MinneMinds campaign, joins The Daily Circuit to talk about the group's effort to secure more money for early childhood education scholarships for low-income Minnesota children. The funding would come through a supplemental budget.

Late last year, the education omnibus funding bill had last-minute changes that impacted funding for Minnesota's preschoolers.

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[Rep. Ryan Winkler, DFL-Golden Valley] is now gearing up for a second chance during the coming session. In January, he pre-filed a bill that would restore $20 million worth of scholarship funding for fiscal 2015, which begins in July of this year, and would remove the existing $5,000 cap on scholarship awards.

The bill would increase the available scholarship funds to $43 million. That amount would then double in each subsequent year until demand around the state is fully met.

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