In an effort to sway voters into backing hard-leftist Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins, the Alaska Democratic Party is now openly attacking the three GOP candidates for daring to support school-choice alternatives such as homeschooling and private and religious education options.
In a Oct. 2 email blast, Alaska Democratic Party Chair Eric Croft claims Bernadette Wilson, Dave Bronson and Treg Taylor want to “gut Alaska public schools,” simply because they favor giving parents greater freedoms to send their children to alternatives to the state’s chronically failing government-run schools.
“Bernadette Wilson, Dave Bronson, and Treg Taylor want to divert money from Alaska public schools to private schools,” the Democrat message claims. “Their plan to ‘fix’ Alaska schools is to slash education funding and send taxpayer money to private schools.”
In reality, the GOP candidates have stated that they want to provide real, viable alternatives to Alaskans, including robust support for the state-funded homeschooling options and more support for families that choose private or religious education for their children.
The Republicans have also repeatedly pointed out that government-run schools need to be held accountable for the fact that the vast majority of their students in Alaska cannot read or do math at grade level – a chronic problem that has persisted for decades.
Rather than foster competition and alternatives, Democrats and their supporters in the NEA teachers’ union have demanded millions more in funding while actively blocking accountability measures.
The latest email from the Democratic Party claims Kreiss-Tomkins will oppose school-choice options that Gov. Mike Dunleavy has supported during his tenure and warns that the Republican candidates actually agree with Dunleavy’s efforts to encourage alternative educational models.
The email blast makes no mention of the fact that homeschooling and private education have surged over the last few years, with 23,000 children now enrolled in the increasingly popular state-funded correspondence programs and tens of thousands more now attend non-public school settings.
Additionally, the Democratic messaging does not mention the fact that Kreiss-Tomkins favors radical notions such as letting gender-confused males compete in girls sports and allowing boys to use locker rooms and bathrooms that are designated for biological girls.
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Just small point: they are not the “Democratic” party, they are the Democrats. There is nothing democratic about much of anything they propose, or how they operate.
More parents of GenBeta (birth to today’s second graders) and the now 8-16 year old GenAlphas are going to leave public school districts no matter if JKT is elected.
More parents both on the left and right and middle are realizing Alaska Schools suck and looking at other school choices outside of public school districts to educate their children
Please rank the republican candidates 1,2, 3 in your order of choice. I would suggest the primary vote order. We do not want a marxist homosexual as guv.
The state should not pay for your private school. That’s A choice you make. The state should sure as hell not pay for religious schooling.
Perhaps if the state were providing schools that taught reading, writing, and arithmetic, that would be true. But since the focus of public schools appears to be degenerate sex and boys can be girls, perhaps public schools should be defunded in preference of religious schools or homeschooling. When state schools teach falsehoods and nonsense, I can’t see that it remains a public benefit but instead is a deficit. Of course, since Evan is totally in on degenerate sex for children, I can see how he would support public funds for this stupidity.
Religion teaches magic. Society does not advance if it is taught that virgins can give birth, dead people can come back to life and snakes talk.
Homeschooling is what is bringing this state down. If you want your kid to stay home and get schooled, pay for it. Don’t expect a handout, quit mooching off the funding. DOGE will eventually find you.
Neither should adults without children in k-12 should be paying extra taxes to fund education nor any parent who doesn’t have their child enrolled nor participating in any public school
Tell me then… who “funds” Public Schools ?? .. Where does that money come from… ?? .. Perhaps even a few of your dollars from the stolen PFD is funneled into the Public School system.
Mr. Singh. In your reply to Tamara you mentioned the word virgin. So then, I suppose you know what a virgin is, but do you know what a woman is? And if you do, can you please explain.
Oooo. Let me think Alaskanyuk. That’s a puzzling gotcha question.
Evan and others. You guys might be interested in knowing that during George Washington’s days, parents had to pay money to send their child to school. The community wasn’t constitutionally responsible for other parents’ children’s education. As a nation, we should return to parents paying money to send their child to school. Schools will have less absenteeism and less behavior problems when school is a personal investment made by the parent.
Probably the only thing I agree with leftists on is that money should not be given out in homeschool allotments. But then also I disagree with the AK Performance Scholarship. But also, I disagree with the community funding K-12 education when it should be funded by the parents if they choose to send their child to public school.
Countries like Sweden and Netherlands do not have any parental rights when it comes to schooling. There is also no homeschooling allowed.
You know what they do have? One of the top five education systems in the world.
An educated society is a benefit to all.
Yes!!! these so-called “democrats” are leftists and Communists, socialists going by different names and they are NOT the traditional liberals such as Fetterman.
JKT is a puppet financed by the tech tyrants of the Silicon Valley who have no interest in Alaskan citizens or families. The National socialists of America are the same thing, different name which is perhaps not as offensive a name as communists. The union leaders are also these “Obama Marxists” in the legislature who stole our Permanent Fund Dividend which was supposed to be royalties shared from our minieral wealth. Tne other leftists/socialists/communists or whatever their current “name” is. They are anti-god, anti-family, anti-Western Civilization and do not believe in moral absolutes, i.e. that there is a wrong or right. They are social justice warriors wiithin the TEaching Tolerance school curriculum putting into schools by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a criminal organization with the hate maps againsts American Christian Organizations..
In Republican circles there is a systematic effort underway to dismantle the public school system. Moving funding from public schools to private schools, parochial schools, and parents who want to homeschool is just part of it. There is also the P.R. strategy of characterizing public schools as nothing more than indoctrination centers. Eventually only wealthier parents will be able to get their kids educated.
If you think that is not true already, you haven’t been near a local public school. It has been years since any of the public schools up here have demanded that children read, write, and do math at grade level in order to move up a grade level. They are graduating functional illiterates. But kids do know that our country is evil (and yet, apparently nowhere else is better), that boys can become girls (although that is scientifically false), and that nobody can ever restrain their sexual urges for any reason, no matter how perverted.
Evan, so you didn’t go to church today, Sorry for you. Maybe you need to go to church and open your eyes.
Yes the Bible speaks of these things, virgin birth, resurrection. When your time is up on this earth, I hope and Pray that you know Jesus. Before you meet God at the Pearly gates, Heaven.
My parents gave me the intellectual freedom to explore the world, including religion. Your christian mythology is at best untrue and at worst superbly destructive across the globe.
That you believe in fairies, ghosts and demons yet you can still feed yourself and make money astounds me.
Yes, Evan, we all know how intellectually superior you are to everyone. You never stop telling us. However, if you truly studied history, and that includes the history of the Church, which is the history of Western Civilization, you would see that not only are you wrong about the Church but pretty much everything else, too. Since the historical evidence tells us that not only did Jesus exist, but that He brought us more information about God than anyone else in history, you might want to understand Him better than your cheap, silly slogans. Or remain as ignorant as you clearly are. Your choice, really. And that’s what you can’t stand, either, that the rest of us chose something you never will.
The communist party cannot allow any student to be free of their indoctrination.
What do you call Sunday School Herman?