Senator Chuck Wiger of Senate District 43 attends a binational climate meeting on March 18 with White Bear Lake city officials to discuss collaborative approaches to climate-smart.
Senate Republicans unveiled their budget targets Tuesday, which includes a voucher proposal that provides funding for non-public school tuition, textbooks, computers and other school services and once again underfunds Minnesota’s public schools at a time of crisis.
Local elected officials, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, Representative Leon Lillie (DFL-North St. Paul) and Senator Chuck Wiger (DFL-Maplewood) held a wide-ranging discussion on the status of transportation projects in the Maplewood, Mahtomedi, North St. Paul, White Bear Lake, Willernie, and Oakdale area Monday, with a focus on funding and the need to move up Highway 36 interchange improvements in the MnDOT priority lists.
Legislation was heard in the Senate Education Finance and Policy Committee Friday to ensure students, staff, and parents are notified when environmental hazards are present at Minnesota’s schools.
Governor Walz renewed calls for urgent consideration of legislation to fund summer learning programming to help Minnesota’s students as the state emerges from the effects of learning loss from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today, March 9, 2021, Senate DFLers convened a press conference to discuss their priority in this legislative session around investing in our students and schools so that our education system supports all students, regardless of their race, zip code or economic status. Among their education legislative priorities this year is fully funding education to provide relief to districts that were affected this past year due to COVID-19 and to make efforts to close the opportunity gap within Minnesota’s current system.