As Minnesota spends $857M on at-risk students, debate grows over where the money goes

5 Eyewitness News is staying on top of that call for nearly $1 billion in aid to help struggling Minnesota students succeed. We’ve learned not all of those tax dollars have to stay in the building with the students in need.

“I’m most interested in putting the dollars where the kids are and where the need is,” said Matt Shaver with EdAllies.

Shaver was one of 14 education experts that Minnesota asked to look at what’s called compensatory funding and find new ways to distribute the dollars meant to help struggling students. Minnesota spent $857 million on compensatory funding this year.

One concern Shaver said the task force had was how much of that money stays with the student.

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