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Minnesota Schools Receiving Aid Catch-Up Payments
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota schools are receiving catch-up payments from the state, which had been partially delaying allowances to ease prior budget shortfalls.
A memo from the Minnesota Management and Budget agency says schools are back on their regular payment schedules as of Tuesday. For several years, a portion of checks to public schools had been delayed as part of an accounting maneuver to help the state balance its books, as the constitution requires.
The payback results from a surplus at the end of the fiscal year that ended on June 30. A law passed last spring required the state to make settling up with schools a priority.
The state still has $225 million in IOUs to schools based on how property tax payments are accounted for.
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