Trend:  Minnesota has dropped from 24th in 1994, to 29th in 1999, to 38th 2003 in investment in elementary and secondary public education as a percent of gross state domestic product.

Source: January 2006 - Minnesota ranks 38th in elementary and secondary public school current expenditures as share of gross state product: 2003 (select Elementary and secondary public school current expenditures as share of gross state product in the drop down box and download the Excel file to sort by year) - Science and Engineering Indicators 2006.  Prepared by the National Science Foundation's Division of Science Resources Statistics (SRS) for the National Science Foundation.