My colleague Rep Donna Mears gave the most heartfelt call to increase education funding in Alaska. Please watch her speech from the House floor yesterday. #akleg
Today the Legislature passed HB69, which increases our education funding statute for the first time in eight years. Here's my floor speech in support of the bill: https://t.co/HUpXpN5wWo
I’m a third-generation student at Ben Eielson,” she said. Her grandparents met here. Her mother and aunts and uncles graduated from here. “I don’t know,”... “It’s kind of hard to see all that — disappear.”
https://t.co/UG3ZxBcBib
We hear a lot about poor performance and low test scores. But Senator Donald Olson reminds us that our youth are full of optimism and determination to "make things happen!"
It's time to #RaiseTheAKBSA and give our youth the tools they need to change the world. #akleg
"More than 100 local residents gathered at Golden Heart Plaza Wednesday to advocate for increased public education funding in Alaska. Demonstrators held signs that read “We will remember in November” and “Raise the BSA.” #akleg
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner: ‘We will remember in November’: Ed Fest participants advocate for increased public education funding https://t.co/eVOjZZjuu5 #akleg
Via @ksrmam “I don’t think I have honestly seen it this bad,” said Druce, a 30-year veteran of Kenai Peninsula education, of the current funding crisis. #akleg https://t.co/yWOWhEI6VD
🧵Last night, shortly after 11 PM, the House failed to discharge SB 88 from the House State Affairs committee.
Let's break down how we got here 👇
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Read NEA-Alaska President Tom Klaameyer's op-ed in the @adndotcom "The constitution or correspondence schools? Alaska can and should have both." #akleg https://t.co/epcfyz1a2Z