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4 year olds at heart of Minnesota budget impasse

ST. PAUL -- An early-learning center visit Thursday reinforced the Republican House speaker's resolve to offer scholarships for pre-kindergarten education instead of Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton's wish to pay for all Minnesota 4 year olds to attend school.

Speaker Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, visited a New Horizon Academy early-learning center in a poor St. Paul neighborhood Thursday, accompanied by a critic of the Dayton plan, former Federal Reserve Bank official and nationally known early-learning expert Art Rolnick.

Daudt and Rolnick later joined Dayton in negotiating education funding levels to be decided in a yet-unscheduled special legislative session to wrap up a two-year, $42 billion state budget.

http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/region/3755049-4-year-olds-heart-minnesota-budget-impasse

 

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