Senate Education Finance Committee on 4/3/2024

Bills

Committee Members

Sen. Mary Kunesh

Senate, 39, DFL, sen.mary.kunesh@senate.mn, 651-296-4334

(Heard as: Kunish kounish )

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Sen. Heather Gustafson

Senate, 36, DFL, sen.heather.gustafson@senate.mn, 651-296-1253

(Heard as: Gussison gustafson Gustafson )

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Sen. Jason Rarick

Senate, 11, R, sen.jason.rarick@senate.mn, 651-296-1508

(Heard as: rarick rarick. Rarick )

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Sen. Steve Cwodzinski

Senate, 49, DFL, sen.steve.cwodzinski@senate.mn, 651-296-1314

(Heard as: Switzinski Swazinski )

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Sen. Robert Farnsworth

Senate, 7, R, sen.robert.farnsworth@senate.mn, 651-296-8436

(Heard as: Farnsworth )

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Sen. Michael Kreun

Senate, 32, R, sen.michael.kreun@senate.mn, 651-296-1282

Sen. Eric Lucero

Senate, 30, R, sen.eric.lucero@senate.mn, 651-296-5655

(Heard as: lucero )

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Sen. Erin Maye Quade

Senate, 56, DFL, sen.erin.mayequade@senate.mn, 651-296-4120

(Heard as: Mayquay )

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Sen. Clare Oumou Verbeten

Senate, 66, DFL, sen.clare.oumouverbeten@senate.mn, 651-296-8866

(Heard as: Umu-Verbaten )

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Sen. Bonnie Westlin

Senate, 42, DFL, sen.bonnie.westlin@senate.mn, 651-296-8869

Noteworthy Content:

00:41:50,360 - then underneath that system of devaluing all of the rest of the tiers come in right so if we have critical staff critical support staff and they tend to be people of color and they tend to be immigrants and they tend to be people that we

01:31:17,340 - of moving us in a direction of moving our school systems and the way we staff schools and compensate teachers away from old racist and extremely sexist pay models that have

01:36:13,340 - are negotiating these sexist and racist pay models.

01:36:25,880 - is why are they sexist and racist and the second part of your

01:37:10,820 - sexist models also we can look at the same when we talk about schools that serve and districts that serve primarily students of color kind of the same structural issues came into play and there' s been no kind of systematic effort ever to go back and investigate how oops we probably didn' t start at the best place possible and now we need to correct for past injustices.

01:38:31,320 - Thank you Madam Chair and nothing I heard there explained these allegations of racism and sexism