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The bills are intended to provide certainty for the more than 20,000 students enrolled in home-school and correspondence programs.
The House passed a non-binding resolution Wednesday calling for a 14-month stay on a court decision that blocked public funds from being used for private school tuition.
The district plans to announce in October or November which schools it proposes closing, and the Anchorage School Board would vote on whether to approve that plan in December.
House GOP members have proposed a constitutional amendment to allow public money at private schools. Senate members want a targeted legislative fix.
The results of the Alaska System of Academic Readiness, known as AK STAR, were delayed this year.
The governor floated an “education dividend” to replace correspondence program allotments.
The state owes $17.5 million to four school districts after not adequately funding them during the COVID-19 pandemic, the feds said.
Over 20,000 correspondence students in Alaska could see significant changes to their education under the ruling late Friday.
The ruling takes aim at public funds going to private schools and could potentially have major implications for the nearly 20,000 correspondence school students in Alaska.
Planning is underway for a major change to high school education that’s dependent on additional funding and robust staffing.
The bill has cleared its first hurdle with less than 6 weeks left in the legislative session.
Students wearing red walked out of school, held up signs and chanted slogans calling for increased education funding, from Anchorage to Utqiagvik to the state capital.
The proposal follows a move by the Anchorage School District last year to require the overdose-reversing drug naloxone to be in its schools in response to 10 fentanyl overdoses in the space of a month across its campuses.
Alaska has the lowest rate of applicants in the nation, which has been true for at least the last decade, said Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education Executive Director Sana Efrid.
Senate Bill 178 would establish the first Tuesday of September as the earliest a state school could begin classes.
An Anchorage facility leased for the institute remains closed.
In this year’s election, voters were asked to choose between three school board members who often vote with the majority and challengers critical of the board’s current direction.
The positions represent employees who leave and aren’t replaced, officials say. If approved, the cuts will slightly increase class sizes.
Chelsea Pohland’s opponent, incumbent school board member Carl Jacobs, has criticized her association with the group during his campaign, calling the group extremist.
The ‘high-risk’ designation could jeopardize substantial federal grant funding for Alaska schools this year, senators said. The Alaska Education Department is pushing back.
Chugiak High School students hosted a forum for mayoral and school board candidates.
One bond would provide up to $70 million for charter school construction and the other would provide up to $15 million for maintenance projects.
The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District has decided to close Ben Eielson Junior-Senior High School at the end of the school year due to budget shortfalls.