ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU/KTVF) – Education staff, school board members, and parents of students from Fairbanks to Anchorage are reacting to the governor’s veto announced Thursday morning to an education bill that would provide a sizeable boost to the state’s per-student funding formula.
House Bill 69, which made it to Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s desk last week, would’ve raised the Base Student Allocation — an annual, per-student allocation for kids Alaska — by $1,000 to a new total of $6,960, increasing the yearly funding by more than $250 million. Other policies previously included in the bill were removed by the Senate Finance Committee before the bill went to floor votes.
Some members of the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board expressed disappointment — but not surprise — with Dunleavy’s veto…