Constitution change funding Minnesota schools appears likely to pass

ROCHESTER — Minnesota voters on Tuesday approved an amendment to the state’s constitution that will allow schools to receive more revenue from the Permanent School Fund. By midnight Wednesday, more than 73% of voters had supported the amendment. Ballots on which the question was left unanswered were counted against the amendment. The voter-approved increase in revenue will start to be distributed to schools in July 2027. According to the Minnesota School Boards Association, the fund provided $68 per student to districts in 2025. If the amendment had been in place at the time, that per-pupil funding would have been $101. Established in the 1800s from revenue generated by the sale of timber and other natural resources as a way to support education, the fund had grown to $2.4 billion by 2025. In 2024, the Minnesota Legislature created a task force to investigate the maintenance of the fund.

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