South Anchorage high school teacher Logan Pitney said his colleagues are making exit strategies to flee their bad financial prospects in Alaska. He called
A school bus full of preschoolers, their parents, caregivers and advocates pulled up to the Capitol building on Monday to hand out Valentine’s Day cards to state legislators on Feb. 13, 2023.
But the governor’s policy would change how the state tackles the issue. While legislators passed a bill that if funded would allow districts to raise teacher salaries, the governor’s proposal instead would pay teachers annual bonuses for three years as an experiment to see if the cash would incentivize them to stay.
The governor’s proposal would come at a cost to the school funding increase, Senate President Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, said. He asked Bishop if the state’s school funding mechanism was the wrong way to increase teacher salaries. Chris Heidemann, president of the Juneau Education Association school union, said he was “ecstatic” that the governor is paying attention to teacher retention, but said bonuses are the wrong way to retain teachers. He said students and educators need an increase to per-student school funding, like the one envisioned in the bill Dunleavy has threatened to veto, because without increased funding districts will have to close schools and lay off teachers.
Charters in Alaska are currently approved by the local school district in which they plan to operate. Anchorage School District Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt said the best way to support the charter schools his district operates would be to increase the student funding formula amount.
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