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AKLEG Day 101: "Sense of the House"
The lawsuit and its fallout have exposed Alaska’s two-tiered public education system, which many Republicans seem deadset on maintaining.
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AKLEG Day 94: Education dividend
In the wake of the home school ruling, Dunleavy sees an opportunity to break down the constitutional barrier that has stopped him from implementing…
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AKLEG Day 92: 'Direct benefit'
Republicans have bristled at attempts to increase oversight on public home school allotment spending. Now we know why.
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AKLEG Day 85: ‘What’s not in the budget?’
The central question moving forward is just how much room there really is in the budget.
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AKLEG Day 84: 'The absence of a compelling reason.'
A long litany of unanswered questions hasn’t stopped Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his Republicans from pushing to enact right-wing changes to education policy…
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AKLEG DAY: 40 minutes
It's been quite the week.
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AKLEG Day 77: 'High-risk'
‘We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.’
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March 2024

AKLEG Day 73: 'Catch the car'
"Unbelievable levels of irresponsibility."
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AKLEG Day 67: 'Establish and maintain'
Former Gov. Bill Walker broke the norms of the PFD law. Now, Dunleavy is effectively doing the same with the BSA.
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AKLEG Day 65: 'Significant consequences'
As “adults play their political games” in Juneau, districts face tremendous, community-dividing uncertainty as they turn to cuts.
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AKLEG Day 63: 39-20
While Republicans claimed there's still time to fund schools, the future is far from certain.
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AKLEG Day 63: 'I will be voting to override'
Since when does the governor get to tell the Legislature how to do things?
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