This op-ed by Alaska Policy Forum board member, Jesse Sumner, was originally published by the Anchorage Daily News on July 11, 2021. After two special sessions to create a smart and functionalRead More
How to fix a defective budget
Webinar: Impact of the Jones Act
Watch the Grassroot Institute‘s successful webinar about the impact of the Jones Act that involved participants and viewers from one end of the nation to the other, from Guam to Puerto Rico, withRead More
Tribal Compacting Is School Choice
The Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) recently received a $1 million grant, funded by the federal CARES Act, to research a “legal and practical pathway” for tribal compacting of education. Tribal compacting is an education agreement between the state and tribes where local authority for K-12 schools is vestedRead More
Identify and Individualize: How to Catch Struggling Readers Early
It is a sad fact, but it is true: children who cannot read by nine rarely catch up to their peers. In 2019, only 25 percent of Alaskan fourth-graders were proficient in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), and almostRead More
Ranked-choice voting is not that simple
This article was originally published in Must Read Alaska on July 10, 2021 by Win Gruening, board member of Alaska Policy Forum. If the election debacle that played out in the NewRead More
Alaska’s State-Local Tax Burden, Ranked
By Drew Godsell A Tax Foundation report calculating and ranking states’ state and local tax burdens, ranked Alaska in 50th place with the lowest burden. This is because Alaska asks notably little ofRead More