OPINION: Expensive funding bill won’t improve Alaska’s failing schools
House Bill 57 (HB 57) introduces targeted reforms to Alaska’s public education system, including smaller class sizes, increased vocational funding, and reading incentive grants. However, these measures fail to address the foundational problems plaguing
OPINION: Here’s how Alaska funds schools – a failing formula
The Anchorage School District (ASD) is in financial trouble, and instead of taking responsibility, they’re demanding the rest of Alaska pay for it.
Alaska Senate GOP caucus debunks ‘meritless’ school funding claims
On April 23, the Senate’s GOP Minority Leader Mike Shower (R-Wasilla) issued a rebuttal to a litany of claims levelled against Republicans who insist that greater funding be tied to
Don’t let green colonialists sacrifice Alaska on the altar of false environmentalism
We cannot allow Alaska to be sacrificed on the altar of a false environmental gospel. We must reject the green colonialism that seeks to chain our future to someone else's
OPINION: School choice is the path forward for Alaska’s students
The Anchorage School District (ASD) is in financial trouble, and instead of taking responsibility, they’re demanding the rest of Alaska pay for it.
Homeland Security nixes $46M grant that UAA used to push anti-colonialism
Homeland Security grants were being funneled into woke ideological agendas like an anti-colonial project at the University of
OPINION: All of Alaska shouldn’t pay for Anchorage School District’s mismanagement
The Anchorage School District (ASD) is in financial trouble, and instead of taking responsibility, they’re demanding the rest of Alaska pay for it.
REP. MCCABE: It’s time to end taxpayer funding of partisan NPR media
Defunding NPR wouldn’t silence it; it would simply put it on the same playing field as every other media company. Let it earn its place in the market, not rely on taxpayers to keep it
Call to Alaskans: ‘Help us defund Planned Parenthood’ on April 2
It is time for all this to end. Please join Alaska Family Council, Students for Life, and Pro-Life Alaska at a rally to defund Planned Parenthood. We will meet in front of Planned Parenthood on Wednesday, April 2nd from 5 p.m. to 6
Trump freezes federal taxpayer funds for two Alaska abortion clinics
Funds were frozen for two Planned Parenthood abortion clinics in Anchorage and Fairbanks – the last two the company still operates in
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