Education proposals' highlights

Highlights of how Minnesota public school funding is affected by competing proposals to erase the state's $935 million deficit:

Gov. Tim Pawlenty plan:

-- Maintains basic state aid to schools.

-- Creates a math and science teacher training program, costing $2.7 million a year.

-- Establishes a Web-based education resource for teachers and students, costing $1 million annually.

-- Makes it easier for mid-career professionals to move into teaching.

Senate DFL plan:

-- Increases state aid to schools by $28.9 million in the 2008-09 academic year; funding boost amounts to about $36 per student.

-- Pays for the school funding increases by taking $21 million targeted for expansion of Gov. Tim Pawlenty's alternative teacher compensation program called Q-Comp and making about $6 million in cuts

-- Changes law regarding how school districts receive money from a state land trust fund, expecting it to yield more funding in the future

-- Funds Pawlenty's math and science teacher training program, but far below his request.

House DFL plan:

-- Provides a one-time school aid boost of about $44 million; funding hike amounts to $51 per student.

-- Uses $21 million from Pawlenty's Q-Comp program to pay for the funding boost. Neither House nor Senate approach affects districts already in the Q-Comp program.

-- Does not fund the governor's math and science teacher training program, nor the Web-based education resource and other small Pawlenty initiatives.

-- Proposes that Minnesota drop out of the federal No Child Left Behind law.