Cheryl Youakim
Democratic-Farmer-Labor · Minnesota · 2026 · IncumbentTop priorities
- Supports indexing the education funding formula to inflation and fully funding special education
- Supports investment in quality early childhood education programs and childcare
Per the campaign site.
Biography
Cheryl Youakim has represented Hopkins, Edina and St. Louis Park in the Minnesota House of Representatives for the last eleven years, per her campaign site. Youakim works as an education paraprofessional in local schools when the legislature is not in session and previously chaired the House Education Finance committee, per her campaign site. Youakim co-founded the nonprofit Start Learning Early in 2004 to raise awareness of early childhood education, per her campaign site.
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