Minnesota Schools Face Deficits Despite Budget Increase

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Many Minnesota school districts face budget deficits despite the biggest single spending increase in last year's bipartisan two-year $540 million budget deal in education funding.

At least 28 school districts in the Twin Cities area say they'll likely have to cut staff and services if the Legislature doesn't give public schools some of the state's projected $1.3 billion surplus, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported.

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