MINNEAPOLIS — The Annunciation Church shooting this week has sparked broader conversations in Minnesota about whether the state should provide more financial support to private and religious schools, particularly around security measures.

According to a spokesperson for the Minnesota Department of Education, the state is already providing roughly $110 million in funding over the next two years in supplemental aid to private-school students, "freeing up room on their bottom lines to fund student safety, wellness, or other priorities." At the urging of House Republican leaders, the legislature successfully prevented cuts to this nonpublic school aid in the next budget cycle.

However, after a shooter killed two young kids and injured more than a dozen others in south Minneapolis this week

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