Education advocates are calling for an increase of at least 14% to the per-student formula used to calculate funding for K-12 education, but Alaska lawmakers have yet to agree on an exact increase size.
Students in a second grade classroom at Klatt Elementary School in Anchorage on Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021.
The Alaska Association of School Boards is urging lawmakers to consider an increase of at least $860 to the $5,960 per-student amount. That number, recommended by the Anchorage School District and adopted unanimously by association delegates last year, accounts for inflation between 2017 and 2022, and would translate to a roughly 14% increase over the current per-student funding rate.
Ruffridge said his goal is to keep an open mind before hearing from school administrators, teachers and interest groups, who are set to speak to lawmakers in the coming weeks about the challenges they face. “I think it’s a bit of a problem, in setting up criteria like that,” said Stevens, a longtime university professor.
“This increase, whoever, will only help them cover their current operating costs,” Parady said. “There’s been this idea that if we increase the BSA that we then have money available to do a bunch of extra things. But the truth is we are going to be starting to make districts whole and give them stability so that we can then move from there.”
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