OPINION: Bloated design failures plague Alaska’s public education system
For years, Alaska’s education establishment has perfected the art of crying poverty while sitting atop one of the most bloated bureaucratic structures in the country. The chorus is always the same - “we need more funding” - but the song never changes:
OPINION: Alaska education lobby evades real reform with ‘Evidence-Based’ talisman
Every time Alaska’s education bureaucracy finds itself cornered by poor results, it reaches for a familiar escape hatch: “evidence-based.” It’s the talisman that turns spending requests into
Alaska AG calls out Anchorage School District’s failure to endorse U.S. Constitution flyer
Alaska Attorney Gen. Stephen Cox finds it deeply concerning that the state’s largest school district is refusing to endorse the U.S. Constitution or the Declaration of
OPINION: Government ‘aid’ distorts market prices and we all burn money faster
Government distorts the marketplace when it tries to "help" people - making goods and services more expensive for everyone. College tuition assistance is a great
OPINION: Are Alaska’s latest reading reforms another flash in the educational pan?
This is the fundamental problem with Alaska’s approach: we implement pieces of successful reforms and then act surprised when the results never materialize. Structured literacy isn’t a one-time course correction - it’s an
Groups that illegally aid in mutilation of gender-confused kids banned from student loan forgiveness program
A “gender affirming care” database published by Planned Parenthood includes a number of Alaska-based medical providers, hospitals and nonprofit groups that promote and engage in transgender medical
Despite better reading scores, school administrators want to ditch Alaska Reads Act
A group representing Alaska’s public school principals wants lawmakers to eliminate a bi-partisan law that has resulted in markedly improved reading skills for K-3rd grade students over the past couple of
Mat-Su voters strengthen conservative majorities on Assembly & School Board, reject fuel tax
A small fraction of registered Mat-Su Borough voters took time to cast ballots for the Nov. 4 election. Those who did decidedly rejected a proposed 7-cents/gallon fuel tax and approved property tax exemptions for seniors and disabled veterans. They also
UAA’s new College of Health dean is a former senior CDC official who marched in lockstep with Dr. Fauci
The new head of the College of Health for the University of Alaska Anchorage is a divisive national figure who marched in lockstep with Dr. Anthony Fauci to push a wide array of controversial Covid protocols such as universal masking, shuttering churches,
Fairbanks district loses another 589 students, many opting for homeschool
The standard, brick and mortar government education model continues to decline in Fairbanks, where the school district is reporting the loss of another 589 students this
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