Today, the House Education committee moved House Joint Resolution 1 (HJR1) out of committee. This resolution would ask Alaskans to vote on changing our state constitution to allow public funds to go to private and religious schools. The problem is that we have no idea what kind of fiscal impact it will have on our public schools because no one has revealed what a voucher system will look like.
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JUNEAU – Today, the Anchorage Legislative Caucus announced its next public hearing in Anchorage will be February 22, 2014 at the Loussac Library. Representative Harriet Drummond (D-Spenard) is the new democratic co-chair of the Anchorage Legislative Caucus and will co-chair the meeting with Representative Gabrielle LeDoux (R-Northeast Anchorage), the republican co-chair of the caucus.
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JUNEAU - Today, Representative Les Gara (D-Anchorage) presented a constitutional amendment to enshrine the Permanent Fund Dividend program in the Alaska Constitution to the House State Affairs Committee.
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JUNEAU – Today, Senator Berta Gardner and Representative Harriet Drummond introduced resolutions to name February of each year Public Education Month in Alaska.
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Last week, the Governor declared 2014 the “Education Session” during his State of the State address to the legislature. I couldn’t agree more. As districts across the state have been forced to face huge teacher layoffs, we are at a critical moment for public education.
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