More than half of Minnesota's stimulus jobs in schools

St. Paul, Minn. (AP) — More than half the 14,000 jobs created or saved by the federal economic stimulus in Minnesota are in public schools.

Federal and state officials are reporting about 7,400 full-time teaching and school support staff jobs linked to the stimulus through the end of September.

The U.S. Department of Education issued a report Monday detailing 7,421 stimulus jobs in the state's education system.

Minnesota Management and Budget officials counted 7,380 K-12 school jobs created or saved by stimulus spending of $634 million.

Statewide stimulus coordinator Michelle Weber says school districts calculated the jobs based on projections of what their staffing would have been without the stimulus.