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The new version of House Bill 57, a House-approved bill requiring school districts to regulate student cellphone use, now ...
With school funding still uncertain, and less than a month to go in the Alaska legislative session, the Senate Finance ...
The Alaska Legislature, as widely expected, failed Tuesday to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a $1,000 increase in ...
The $1,000 BSA bill is dead. Long live the $700 BSA bill. A quick revival of efforts to increase the statutory $5,960 Base ...
Five days after Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a major increase to Alaska’s per-student public school funding formula, a Senate ...
An education bill with newly added policy provisions as well as a $700 increase in per-student funding was quickly advanced ...
The Alaska Senate is eyeing over $100 million in budget cuts, but a more than $85 million shortfall remains in the Senate's draft spending plan. The Senate Finance Committee on Thursday unveiled its ...
Concerns over the state's ability to pay for the $1,000 per-student increase in basic funding, given its worsening fiscal ...
Even with the Senate’s cuts, preliminary figures show that the operating budget — when combined with other budget bills — ...
With a month left in the legislative session, multiple lawmakers said it would be difficult to craft an education measure ...