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Legislators bristle at court order striking down homeschool allotments
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The legislature failed to override Gov. Dunleavy's veto of a $680 per-student funding increase by just one vote. The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will now craft a budget with no legislative funding increase in advance of a May 1 deadline to present a balanced budget.
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A letter from the U.S Department of Education says the state disproportionately reduced funding to three Alaska school districts when it received federal COVID-19 relief funds. That includes $5 million to KPBSD, which the feds say the state must make a plan to remedy.
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Since it convened last Tuesday, the Alaska Legislature has considered an override of the governor’s 2023 education funding veto, and a bill containing a modest BSA increase. Kenai Peninsula residents weighed in on that bill, many saying the increase was not good enough to counter inflation and keep schools functioning.
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The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is doing its annual roadshow, rolling out the proposed budget in a series of community meetings around the…
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Over the weekend, the state legislature was unable to come up with the votes to make any major changes to Governor Mike Dunleavy’s budget, or his plans to…
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Governor Mike Dunleavy’s plan to block $20 million in forward-funding for Alaska school districts wound up going nowhere in the state legislature this…
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The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly’s annual meeting in Seward usually has a fairly light, local agenda. But this year, they’ve even switched venues from…
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The assembly took nearly three hours of public testimony before it finally got an action item on the agenda. One of which was related to education…