Alaska parents demand seat at Education Task Force table
If Alaska lawmakers want input on how to improve Alaska’s dismal public school system, they shouldn’t rely exclusively on the entrenched educational establishment that has presided over the failed institution, but inquire from actual parents and
OPINION: Bureaucrat-heavy education funding task force sidelines Alaska parents and kids
If Alaska's Task Force on Education Funding is going to work, parents and students need a seat at the
Fixing Alaska failing public education system, Part 1
Alaska’s public education system is facing financial collapse due to dropping attendance, but while our leadership in Juneau knows it, they are incapable of fixing things due to bureaucratic incompetence and a self-imposed limitation they find in the Alaska
OPINION: Alaska Ed. Funding Task Force was bought before it began
Alaska’s Education Funding Task Force hasn’t even finished its coffee, and the outcome is already written. When every seat at the table is filled by state legislators bankrolled by the same education unions whose interests they’re supposed to
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
Education activists plot strategy to pressure AK lawmakers into spending more money
Education activists plot political battle to push AK lawmakers into spending more
Alaska Senate Republicans have a new Minority Leader
The Senate Republican Caucus in the Alaska Legislature has elected Sen. Mike Cronk (R – Tok/Northway) as its new Minority
OPINION: Alaska’s next governor must establish an ‘Office of Unborn Advocacy’
We need an Office of Unborn Advocacy in the governor’s office - staffed with dedicated, taxpayer-funded, state employees who are willing to do in Alaska what pro-abortion governors are doing right now across the
Debunking false narratives about Alaska’s correspondence schools
The Alaska Association of School Boards recent chiding of correspondence school graduation rates and testing is not only one-sided – it’s misleading. AASB's remarks echo familiar talking points by the NEA teachers’ union on the need for more tracking
Mat-Su superintendent peddles error-laced crusade against popular homeschool program
Mat-Su School Superintendent Randy Trani is on a mission to fundamentally alter Alaska’s increasingly popular statewide homeschool programs, which currently allow parents the freedom to choose whichever programs they believe will best serve the educational
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