Significant Funding Increase Will Provide Classrooms and Teachers with Desperately Needed Resources Juneau – Thursday, the Alaska State Senate passed Senate Bill 52 to increase education funding by $175 million for Alaska’s public schools and correspondence programs. This significant increase provides school districts with a $680 addition to the Base Student Allocation (BSA) calculation, which […]
The right-wing justice has committed “a foul breach of ethics standards,” said Sen. Ron Wyden, “which are already far too low when it comes to the Supreme Court.” U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden on Thursday said he will use his authority as chair of the Senate Finance Committee to get answers from Republican megadonor Harlan Crow […]
JUNEAU – Wednesday, the Alaska Senate passed Senate Bill 22, sponsored by Senator Elvi Gray-Jackson, D-Anchorage, establishing Juneteenth, June 19, as an annually observed state holiday. In 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, proclaiming the civil war had ended and that any enslaved people were now free. This day became known as Juneteenth, a […]
Budgets Balance with Approximately $90 Million in Surplus Without a Constitutional Budget Reserve Draw JUNEAU – The Senate Finance Committee introduced a committee substitute for the state’s operating budget Wednesday afternoon. The new committee substitute provides a permanent fund dividend consistent with a 75/25 percent of market value (POMV) split of the annual earnings, translating […]