In a month of making their rounds before local government, Rep. Rob Eastlund and Sen. Rick Olseen turned to education and the funding challenges that continue to burden school districts and local taxpayers.

The Cambridge-Isanti School Board on Oct. 22 received some pretty bleak news from the DFL senator and Republican representative on the projected $4-$7 billion budget deficit, K-12 shifts and the inequities that appear to be widening the funding gap between metro districts with higher property wealth and those in the Greater region. See more in Editor Jon Tatting's Isanti County News story.

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