The Alaska House of Representatives voted 38-1 on Wednesday to approve a fast-moving budget bill that spends as much as $365 million to cover a shortfall in state revenue caused by lower-than-expected oil prices. The bill also includes $6.8 million to immediately address a crisis in the state’s food-stamp program. Staffing shortages have created huge […]
Anchorage, Alaska – Museums Alaska representatives—Dixie Clough, director of Museums Alaska, and Patty Relay, executive director of the Valdez Museum and Historical Archive and Museums Alaska Treasurer—will join hundreds of museum advocates in-person in Washington, D.C. on February 27-28 to petition our government and make the case for museums. Joined by museum leaders from across […]
The M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust has awarded $1 million to Cook Inlet Tribal Council (CITC) to build a Super Fab Lab that is four times the size of its current “fabrication laboratory.” The new, bigger and better lab will allow the tribal organization to support STEAM education for many more Anchorage youth and entrepreneurs as […]
JUNEAU-Wednesday, Representative Ortiz introduced a bill to increase education funding across the state. House Bill 65 will increase the Base Student Allocation (BSA) by $1250, an increase of nearly 21%. In the past decade, Alaska’s urban consumer price index has increased by 24.6%, while the BSA has increase by only 4.2%. Schools have made it […]