Minnesotans vote for school spending at near-record rates

I don’t know how much of this might have to do with a Trump backlash. Trump himself, after all, wasn’t on ballots, and except for an occasional school board race neither were candidates associated with him. But, certainly, one way of assessing the whole Trump thing is as a perverse glorification of ignorance and stupidity, happily pandered to by corporate media.

A full 88 percent of school operating levies on Minnesota ballots passed on (November 5). That’s an approval rate surpassed only in 2015, when Minnesota saw 90 percent approval.

School bond questions — in the form of property tax increases to pay for repairs or new schools — also fared well. More than 7 in 10 passed, which is the third highest rate since the MSBA began tracking school referendums in 1980. - MPR