Ann believes that quality public education is a solution to Minnesota's most serious problems, including racial and economic disparities, community violence, and depressed economic growth.

 

Ann supports:

• significantly increased state funding for public schools.

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• universal preschool, afterschool, ELS, and remedial programs for Minnesota families.

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• increased state efforts to recruit, train, and support African American, Native American, and other teachers of color.

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• policies prohibiting the suspension from school of preschool and early elementary-age children.

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• mask mandates for all students, staff and visitors when inside on school property, as advised by the Minnesota Department of Health and the CDC.

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• increased state funding for school counselors, social workers, anti-violence and anti-bullying programs.

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• current language in Minnesota's constitution stipulating that the legislature must establish a general and uniform system of public schools.