The Anchorage School District is hiring more teachers after receiving nearly $10 million in additional state funding, following legislators’ override of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto on education funding.
Before the school year began, the district approved spending about $4 million to hire 20 new teachers. This week, the school board authorized nearly $3.6 million more to bring on 27 additional teachers.
“Now we finally have the flexibility to offer relief [to crowded classrooms] regardless of what the PTR was at the school,” said ASD Superintendent Dr. Jharrett Bryantt, referencing the district’s pupil-to-teacher ratios…