School Finance Revamp Is a Pawlenty Priority.

This article focuses on Tim Pawlenty's, governor of Minnesota, plans to restore Minnesota to greatness. Despite the past year's budget problems, the governor gave his administration a pat on the back for enacting new educational standards and sparing per-pupil education spending from the cuts that affected other budget areas. The first item on the governor's education agenda is to revamp education finance. Pawlenty, however, appears to want to dramatically alter the state's traditional per-pupil funding formula. According to Pawlenty, task force on school finance that he appointed last year is expected to release its recommendations soon on overhauling the system.