Alaska school administrators are celebrating the $175 million in extra public school funding in this year’s state budget but warn that they’ll likely again face large deficits next year.
Anchorage Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt sent a letter to parents on the final day of the school year Monday, saying that while he was “grateful to our legislators for recently voting to fund public education, I do want to manage the expectations around what an increase in funding would mean.”
Kenai Peninsula pools and theaters that were slated for closure can now stay open, he said, including the pool in Seward where Olympic gold medalist Lydia Jacoby trained. Administrators and education advocates told lawmakers that they needed a permanent school funding increase of around twice that amount to catch up from the impacts of rising costs. The Legislature last substantially boosted the BSA in 2017, meaning inflation has effectively eroded funding for districts.
Alaska students have regularly scored in the bottom of the nation in standardized tests. House Republicans argued during the legislative session that academic performance would not necessarily improve with more school funding, and they indicated support forthat would instead increase home-school funding and encourage more charter schools to open.
“We were in such a precarious situation with funding that we just didn’t know if we were going to be able to continue operating our district for the benefit of our students,” Ballard said.in September that Yupiit School District is working to incorporate Yup’ik culture into everything it does. Its three schools now operate on a subsistence calendar, where students take time off in spring to hunt birds and in the fall to hunt moose.
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