JUNEAU – In light of Friday’s ruling by the Alaska Superior Court striking down allotments in correspondence school programs, the Alaska House Coalition urges quick action by the legislature. Alaska’s schools are faced with woefully inadequate funding, a worst-in-the-nation retirement system that results in drastic barriers to recruiting and retaining skilled educators, and uncertainty around […]
“The bans we’re seeing are broad, harsh, and pernicious—and they’re undermining the education of millions of students across the country,” said one lead author of a new PEN America report. U.S. school districts banned more books during the first half of the current academic year than during the entire last scholastic year, a report published […]
(JUNEAU, AK) – Tuesday Governor Mike Dunleavy released the results from a statewide public opinion poll on education in Alaska. The poll revealed strong support for increasing education funding, yet as a general approach to improving education outcomes, Alaskans believe that “change and reforms to the education system” are more important than “increasing education […]