2007 Platform Legislative Goals Short term: Create significant and long lasting reduction in class sizes. Specific legislative initiatives to support this include: Provide a 3.5% increase in funding to address rising costs due to inflation. Provide additional funding to reduce class sizes by 3 students in all grades. Fully fund special education requirements. Long Term: Create a straightforward and stable funding solution that gives districts an adequate and equitable source of revenue. Amend the basic formula to account for market driven operating cost differentials. Copyright 2007 Citizens for Eden Prairie Schools