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: Alaska education bureaucracy invokes ‘hungry children’ to justify double dipping
Few subjects can shut down a budget discussion faster than feeding kids. It’s the rhetorical trump card of education politics - invoke “hungry children,” and any criticism of fiscal waste is branded cruel. But compassion isn’t the same thing as
OPINION: Radical language wars serve leftist agenda in Alaska and beyond
Controlling the dictionary is more powerful than controlling Congress, because it decides who sounds reasonable before a single vote is
Outside money, hidden agendas: Who’s really pulling the strings in Alaska?
Many Alaska believe they live in a relatively conservative, resource-based state where registered Republicans outnumber Democrats nearly two to one. Yet, Alaska regularly passes left-wing ballot initiatives, environmental restrictions, and so-called election
GOP accepting applicants to fill Alaska Sen. Shelley Hughes’ vacated seat
The Alaska Republican Party is looking for qualified residents who wish to fill the recently vacated seat of Sen. Shelley Hughes
OPINION: Russian explorers forever changed Alaska Native culture
Russian officials did not wish to exterminate the aboriginal northern population, but rather, in cooperation with local Native leaders, to reform them into good and meticulous suppliers of valuable
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
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