COVID-19 left a lasting mark on a few sectors, with schools, public transit and child care providers facing fiscal cliffs as federal funding dries up. S.
A proposed April 30 special election to boost the Fairbanks North Star Borough’s tax revenue cap for the next fiscal year may be pushed to the Oct. 1 municipal election.
Some educators and administrators equate the law to an "unfunded mandate" in which the Legislature has required schools to implement reading intervention but with little funding to do so.
Increasing state funding for public schools may seem simple, but linking it to teacher bonuses and charter schools has made it a complicated task in the Alaska Legislature.