Tim Pawlenty is proposing an education spending reform focusing on early childhood. The plan calls for spending $10.2 million the first year and $10 million each year after that. The programs include educational programs, family enrichment programs, and kids deemed "not ready for Kindegarten"

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Tim Pawlenty is seeking to extend a program that the state has which helps with emergency health care costs. Essentially, the program requires minnesota to pay for Emergency medicare costs to the elderly if they cannot afford it.

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Governor Tim Pawlenty is trying to encourage entrepreneurship in his state of minnesota. One of the tactics to do this is to borrow $26.6 million in funds for the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, one of the premier business schools in Minnesota. Most of which will be going towards updating the electrical systems in some buildings as well as updating several out of date technologies. However, he did not request money for research centers and field stations around the state, "which" according to University President Robert Bruininks, "are critical to our strategic goal of becoming one of the top three research facilities in the world."

I will be following the campaign of Tim Pawlenty, running for governor of minnesota