Opinion: Alaska school districts deserve more transparency from state education department

Opinion: Alaska school districts deserve more transparency from state education department

In early October 2024, the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (DEED) released a draft proposal to change a standing regulation that would expand the definition of “local contribution.” Local contribution is the dollar amount that municipalities and organized boroughs across the state contribute to their school district…

Report: How legislators short-changed students out of reading and math instruction

Twenty years of data show how budget cut-backs for K-12 schools starting in 2007 predict both the loss of teachers and plunging student proficiencies in Alaska… This report by Mike Bronson, NAACP Anchorage education committee, looks at how the base student allocation (BSA) and the numbers of teachers correlate with the drop in student proficiency over recent years.