All sides of the educational debate are now forced to admit that most government-run schools in Alaska are an abysmal failure. Every new study reinforces the fact that Alaska students continue to languish at the bottom of the pile in terms of basic – yes basic – reading and math.
Exasperated parents have pulled tens of thousands of kids out of traditional public schools in favor of home or private education. They demand alternatives to the calcified and failing status quo.
Alaska’s public teachers’ union – NEA-Alaska – knows it’s in trouble. State-run schools are closing across the state, as students flee and thereby reduce the cash available to the public school apparatus.
As expected, NEA has two tired responses: beg and bully state lawmakers to give public schools more money for fewer students, and make it far more difficult (or impossible) for parents to opt their children out of the disastrous government school system.
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As things stand today, parents can still use state correspondence funds to pay for private teachers or private classes for their children. This is a major threat to the massive flow of public funds that the NEA has long enjoyed. In fact, it is fundamentally altering Alaska’s educational landscape.
To stop this trend in its tracks, the NEA is now helping to fund a lawsuit that would severely limit the freedoms Alaska families have when it comes to hiring teachers and enrolling children in private classes that best meet the educational needs of students.
This is nothing less than an aging and wounded beast, desperately lashing out to satiate its inordinate and destructive appetite. We mustn’t capitulate.
The views expressed here are those of the author.
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Please mark you calendars back to about 10/22. So we can all see how long before 1. ASD tries to get a big dollar bond package past us. (*after school closings due to fewer students), NEA’s “progressive” cabal of brain washers palms extended for a big pay raise for less results at every level.
I’d guess if NEA has enough money fir a lawsuit there is no reason we the people need to give them more. It’s time NEA relieses they woke agenda, critical race garbage isn’t working and move forward before it’s all gone. When I parent can’t speak to the school board or administration on behalf of their child something is defiantly wrong. Those are the places parents need to interact with the schools. That’s how tge problems get worked out. What I’ve read is parents are being asked to leave or escorted out if they raise their voice in opposition to the board. Kits just like the Anchorage assembly. Same thing happening. Now even the assembly hired a hit squad for people they think are hate speaking. Who is the assembly, Gestopo? I think not! Assembly has a job to do and part of it is listening to the public and there concerns. Both are school and assembly has gotten so far out of touch they have no clue what’s going on. It’s time both these two groups of people need to take a step back and reevaluate there position. It’s out of touch. Our people and children are the ones that suffering and there is no reason for it.Both the assembly and school board/administration/ district get an “F” for a grade. Time for a change.
History of homeschool in Alaska. Well worth the listen! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-homeschool-loftcast/id1570355117?i=1000591109320
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This is promising news!
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