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MN
Transcript Highlights:
- It's available to eligible students attending a Minnesota public higher education institution or tribal
- I do hope that we will adopt the new educational attainment goal that was brought forward by the Minnesota
- 74% of all Minnesota jobs requiring some form of post-secondary education by 2031.
- I believe public two-year state colleges are the backbones of higher education in Minnesota, 48 campuses
- I believe public two-year state colleges are the backbones of higher education in Minnesota, 48 campuses
Committee:
Senate Higher Education
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Next on line seven of the spreadsheet is the Minnesota P20 educational partnership appropriation.
- Next on line seven of the spreadsheet is the Minnesota P20 educational partnership appropriation.
- ,</c><00:07:23.160><c> um</c> nine, again in northern Minnesota, um nine, again in northern Minnesota
- </c> of College Possible Minnesota. of College Possible Minnesota.
- </c><00:20:30.400><c> Um</c> of Minnesota? Um of Minnesota?
Committee:
Senate Higher Education
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- ><c> of</c> Minnesota educator colors educators of Minnesota educator colors educators of color<00:15
- Educators of Color and Teacher Mentorship and Retention Grants to the Minnesota Department of Education
- c> and</c> greater Minnesota educators of color and greater Minnesota educators of color and teacher<
- We represent 84,000 Education Minnesota.
- Minnesota is educators across the state.
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 2/19/26
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Higher Education Committee. We Higher Education Committee.
- </c> education space. education space.
- the Minnesota grant or Minnesota the Minnesota grant program?
- I am the financial aid analyst for the Office of Undergraduate Education at the University of Minnesota
- </c> education at the University of Minnesota education at the University of Minnesota Twin<01:12:19.199
Committee:
House Higher Education Finance and Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Undocumented noncitizens made ineligible for state financial aid programs 3/10/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- While we are all aware of the increasing cost of education in Minnesota, financial aid to undocumented
- </c><00:07:05.640><c> in</c><00:07:05.760><c> Minnesota,</c> cost of education in Minnesota, cost of
- education in Minnesota, financial<00:07:06.800><c> aid</c><00:07:06.919><c> to</c><00:07:07.000><c> undocumented
- Minnesota. Minnesota.
- Education, to every Minnesota student who wants it.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Student career pathways framework established 2/26/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Then you have the Minnesota Department of Education coming alongside in a support role.
- Then you have the Minnesota Department of Education coming alongside in a support role.
- Then you have the Minnesota Department of Education coming alongside in a support role.
- Then you have the Minnesota Department of Education coming alongside in a support role.
- Then you have the Minnesota Department of Education coming alongside in a support role.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 03/14/25
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> Gillingham Minnesota Gillingham Minnesota these<00:03:30.959><c> organizations</c><00:03:31.640>
- When educators are not provided the tools to understand dyslexia and its educational barriers, despite
- Minnesota Minnesota Society<00:26:24.960><c> uh</c><00:26:25.399><c> Minnesota</c><00:26:25.799><c>
- Minnesota law.
- Minnesota law.
Committee:
Senate State and Local Government
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Cmte on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - Subcommittee on Veterans - 03/04/26
Transcript Highlights:
- Minnesota. Minnesota.
- </c> across the whole state of Minnesota. across the whole state of Minnesota.
- Minnesota veterans and their families have seen several changes to higher educational programs since
- :18.080><c> and</c> Minnesota fam- Minnesota veterans and Minnesota fam- Minnesota veterans and their
- The Minnesota GI Minnesota statutes.
Summary:
The Minnesota Senate Subcommittee on Veterans met on March 4, 2026, and began with a moment of silence honoring Sergeant First Class Nicole Amore of White Bear Lake, who was killed while serving in Kuwait. The committee then took up Senate File 3956, an MDVA policy bill giving the commissioner clearer authority to direct staff time and other non-monetary resources toward partnerships with organizations serving veterans, especially on food insecurity, homelessness, suicide prevention, and related efforts. MDVA and Disabled American Veterans testified that the bill would help them work more quickly and clearly with outside partners, including food pantry and outreach efforts, while remaining focused on non-monetary support. Senator Howe offered an A1 amendment narrowing the bill to the three named priorities and removing the broader “other critical issues” language; the amendment was adopted after discussion about whether the reporting language also needed adjustment. SF 3956, as amended, was laid over for further consideration.
The committee then heard Senate File 3955, which would create a new procedure for temporary closure of a Minnesota veterans home if an involuntary termination notice requires it, bringing state law into closer alignment with federal expectations. MDVA emphasized that it had no intention of permanently closing any veterans homes and that the bill was intended only to establish a temporary closure plan to satisfy survey requirements. Senator Howe offered an A1 amendment clarifying that any closure would be temporary unless the legislature approved a permanent closure; MDVA and the Department of Health indicated the change was acceptable. The committee adopted the amendment and then voted to recommend SF 3955, as amended, to pass and refer it to the full committee.
Finally, the committee began Senate File 4072, an MDVA cleanup and conformity bill. After adopting a technical A3 amendment, MDVA explained that the bill would reclassify the Chief of Staff/Deputy Chief of Staff role as Deputy Commissioner for Administration to better reflect the scope of the position, and would also repeal outdated statutes related to environmental hazards assistance and a data-collection requirement that the department said it could not implement. The bill was still being presented when the transcript ended, and no final committee action on SF 4072 was shown in the excerpt.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/25
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Minnesota Medical School.
- Minnesota Medical School.
- Minnesota Medical School.
- Minnesota Medical School.
- </c> education or the program of Education education or the program of Education they're<00:33:29.720
Committee:
House Higher Education Finance and Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House OKs nearly $4 billion higher ed budget that would offset state grant program deficit 4/28/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- significant</c> Higher education is a significant Higher education is a significant protective<00:12
- A 2021 Minnesota Chamber of Commerce report found that, quote, "Minnesota needs immigrants.
- A 2021 immigration in Minnesota.
- </c><00:25:53.600><c> And</c> Minnesota. Obviously, they did not. And Minnesota.
- And in Minnesota, we have said if you are in foster care and you want to pursue a higher education, we
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/25
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- from the University of Minnesota on higher education asset preservation.
- Minnesota has a history of making higher education convenient and available to all.
- from the University of Minnesota on higher education asset preservation.
- Um, Minnesota has a history of making higher education convenient and available to all.
- Um Minnesota has a history of making<01:09:01.920><c> higher</c><01:09:02.239><c> education</c><01:09
Committee:
House Higher Education Finance and Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
The Cost of Special Education – Senator Mary Kunesh Feb 17th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- When it comes to special education in Minnesota, the numbers are going up, from the number of students
- These are things that Minnesota has instituted, but we know special education is a federal mandate.
- These are things that Minnesota has instituted, but we know special education is a federal mandate.
- These are things that Minnesota has instituted, but we know special education is a federal mandate.
- in Minnesota and the whole financial spectrum of financing education in Minnesota. issue right now is
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on H.F. 4252 - Omnibus Higher Education Finance and Policy - 05/14/26
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:08:45.040><c> Uh</c> postsecary education act. Uh postsecary education act.
- I serve as the commissioner of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.
- </c> the higher education attainment goal. the higher education attainment goal.
- And to the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, Minnesota, >> Mr.<00:54:16.880><c> Chelseith,</c
- </c><00:54:29.040><c> Uh</c> University of Minnesota. Uh University of Minnesota.
Summary:
The conference committee received a nonpartisan walkthrough of the House and Senate side-by-side for higher education-related legislation, with staff identifying Senate-only, House-only, identical, and technical-difference provisions. Topics included paid blood donation leave for Minnesota State employees, a revised higher education attainment goal, athletic fee restrictions, developmental course disclosures, American Indian Scholars Program eligibility, protections and definitions for pregnant and parenting students, online program management contracts, student aid reporting, work-study and dual training grants, private and out-of-state postsecondary education regulation, private career school licensing and data privacy, college savings plan changes, and several University of Minnesota-related provisions. House-only items also included an unemployment insurance aid adjustment, a $1.5 million ongoing appropriation for an identity verification system to combat enrollment fraud, and $5,000 for Bemidji State University reforestation; Senate-only items included Board of Regents appointment language, limits on for-profit control of medical school curriculum, and reporting on for-profit funding in medical education.
After the walkthrough, the committee moved to adopt the same and similar provisions and direct staff to make technical corrections. A senator asked about proposed adjustments to the pregnant and parenting student language, and the chair said amendments would be considered after adopting the same and similar provisions. The motion to adopt prevailed.
During public testimony, Sydney Spre of the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees supported the Senate’s paid blood donation leave language, saying it would create parity for Minnesota State employees and encourage blood and plasma donation. Commissioner Dennis Olsen of the Office of Higher Education thanked the committee for adopting most of the agency’s proposed language and said he was available to help clarify remaining differences. In response to questions, he explained the Senate’s higher education attainment goal proposal, saying it would extend and broaden the existing goal, raise the target from 70% to 75%, expand the age range, and use additional metrics and partner agencies; he also said the overall attainment rate had been 63.5 under the prior goal. The transcript ends as the commissioner was being asked whether the proposal would require additional appropriations.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- I have met with both Minnesota State and the University of Minnesota in meeting with them.
- I have met with both Minnesota.
- </c> are moving to Minnesota. are moving to Minnesota.
- </c><00:14:57.360><c> My</c> Bernie with Minnesota State. My Bernie with Minnesota State.
- I I abortions in the state of Minnesota. So, abortions in the state of Minnesota.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Education Minnesota is a disgusting organization.
- > comes</c><01:10:14.640><c> to</c> by Education Minnesota when it comes to by Education Minnesota when
- So once again one education Minnesota.
- :43.040><c> Minnesota</c> think that's what Education Minnesota think that's what Education Minnesota
- </c><01:50:48.960><c> Minnesota</c> a proud member of Education Minnesota a proud member of Education
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Currently, Minnesota does not tax the education award component.
- Currently, Minnesota does not education.
- Currently, Minnesota does not tax<00:37:08.160><c> the</c><00:37:08.280><c> education</c><00:37:08.800
- Minnesota has already led the nation in exempting the education award from income tax.
- in Minnesota has already led the nation in exempting<00:40:13.640><c> the</c><00:40:13.920><c> education
Committee:
Senate Taxes
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Minnesota communities through Minnesota Minnesota communities through free<00:07:27.160><c> accessible
- </c><00:31:08.120><c> Radio</c> Minnesota next uh Minnesota Public Radio Minnesota next uh Minnesota
- AMPERS is the Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations, which represents 17 independent
- AMPERS is the Association of Minnesota Public Educational Radio Stations, and as our esteemed author,
- </c><00:52:37.040><c> public</c> association of Minnesota public association of Minnesota public educational
Committee:
House Legacy Finance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Section 6 and 36 were reserved for education, and across the southern half of Minnesota nearly all of
- and across the southern half education and across the southern half of<00:16:02.040><c> Minnesota</c
- Such a result would be harmful to public education funding for Minnesota students, violate the trust
- education funding for Minnesota<00:19:01.880><c> students</c><00:19:02.440><c> violate</c><00:19:02.880
- </c> education Section 8 of the Minnesota education Section 8 of the Minnesota Constitution<00:19:23.840
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Rep. Liz Lee Press Conference 3/18/26
Transcript Highlights:
- ><c> of</c><00:02:12.000><c> our</c> Minnesota businesses pay 48% of our Minnesota businesses pay 48%
- ><c> be</c> Minnesota taxpayers should not be Minnesota taxpayers should not be subsidizing<00:05:05.000
- </c> an advantage over Minnesota companies. an advantage over Minnesota companies.
- </c> provider tax, which pays for Minnesota provider tax, which pays for Minnesota care.<00:10:02.160
- My name is Natasha Doctor, and I am a middle school social studies teacher, Education Minnesota member
Summary:
The meeting was a press-style discussion in support of House File 4343, which would end Minnesota’s sales tax exemption for digital advertising services and physical advertising space such as billboards. Supporters said the bill would raise more than $300 million in revenue and allow the state sales tax rate to be reduced, while also modernizing the tax code to reflect a digital, service-based economy. Eric Bernstein of We Make Minnesota argued the current sales tax base is outdated, too narrow, and unfairly shifts burden onto Minnesota businesses, workers, and property taxpayers.
Representative Lislegard said the bill would help fund schools, health care, infrastructure, child care, and local government, and framed it as a response to structural budget gaps and rising property taxes. She said large corporations are not paying their fair share and that the state should cut exemptions rather than reduce public services. Several speakers from labor, education, health care, and the arts backed the proposal, including a working parent who cited high child care costs, an AFSCME representative from Hennepin County Medical Center who said the revenue is needed to support the safety-net hospital, a musician who said streaming and ad-driven platforms profit from artists’ labor, and an educator who criticized social media companies’ impact on youth.
The speakers repeatedly argued that major tech and advertising companies such as Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, TikTok, and Spotify should contribute more to public services, while ordinary Minnesotans already pay too much. Representative White closed by acknowledging the bill faces a difficult path but said supporters would keep fighting for it. No vote or formal committee action was taken in the portion provided, and the event ended with one question from the audience.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Today here in Minnesota, one in three licensed Minnesota educators are choosing not to teach.
- </c> I myself am a long-time Minnesota I myself am a long-time Minnesota educator<00:41:33.200><c> who
- Minnesota for our educators educators educators um<00:43:38.960><c> to</c><00:43:39.080><c> bring</c>
- Justin Killian, and I'm a policy researcher with Education Minnesota.
- </c> the first time in my role at Education the first time in my role at Education Minnesota,<00:52:36.160
Committee:
House Education Finance