Alaska Public Media spoke with school leaders from Ketchikan to Kotzebue about the Gov. Dunleavy’s veto of a school funding bill. Here’s what they had to say.
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Student-written plays engage Juneau community on addiction, climate change
High school students wrote plays on personal topics as part of this year’s Radio Theater Festival. Theater Alaska performed the plays again Thursday to engage the community in discussing topics on students’ minds.
Dunleavy vetoes education bill, announces competing bill
Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday announced he had vetoed a bill that would have boosted the basic per-student funding amount for public schools, the base student allocation, by $1,000. Instead, Dunleavy said he would introduce a $560 BSA increase, along with $35 million in targeted education funding, attached to a set of policies in a…
Alaska Gov. Dunleavy vetoes education funding boost for second year in a row
House Bill 69 would have increased the base student allocation — the core of the state’s per-student funding — by $1,000 in the funding formula.
UAS relatively unaffected by university-wide DEI directive and federal funding cuts
The University of Alaska Southeast has been largely unaffected by federal funding cuts and revoked student visas other campuses have faced in the state.
University of Alaska says 4 international students have had visas revoked amid national immigration crackdown
One of the students is recent UAA graduate Jean Kashikov, who’s originally from Kazakhstan and had been working as a flight instructor in Wasilla since March.