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On January 15 at Turnagain Elementary, the Governor of Alaska, the Alaska Commissioner for Education, and State Senator Begich announced in a press conference new education legislation to address the 3rd grade literacy […]
Click here to open the press release as a PDF in a new tab. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Policy Forum (APF) has published new interactive maps of the 2019 Performance Evaluation for Alaska’s […]
By Richard K. Vedder This article is reprinted with permission from the Independent Institute and was originally published in Forbes on November 11, 2019. Politicians have historically favored funding state universities, arguing they […]
By Bob Griffin This op-ed was originally published in the Anchorage Daily News and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner in December 2019. For decades, Mississippi was synonymous with poor student achievement. Not anymore. In 2013, […]
Click here to open the press release as a PDF in a new tab. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska Students’ Educational Bill of Rights ballot initiative contains “a number of potential legal flaws” […]
Proponents of the Alaska Students’ Educational Bill of Rights ballot initiative have begun collecting signatures, but according to a preliminary legal opinion from the law firm Holland & Knight: “The Initiative is a […]
This article was originally published in the Anchorage Daily News on September 6, 2019. In the midst of debates surrounding current budget cuts and the Alaska Permanent Fund, we are neglecting to address […]
By Bob Griffin On October 1st 2019, the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board passed a resolution questioning the accuracy of Performance Evaluation for Alaska’s Schools (better known as the PEAKS test). In […]
On September 11, 2019, I hosted Choice Media‘s Story of the Day for Instagram. The article I chose to discuss is “Group sues Ohio union over continued forced union dues.” Check out the […]
The Problem Statistics for literacy among Alaska’s children are dismal. Alaska’s K-12 education system has arguably the worst student outcomes in the nation in the fundamental task of teaching children to read by […]
Parents and community members can now easily compare Alaska’s public schools via user-friendly maps that display student performance results. School districts across the state released the results of Performance Evaluation for Alaska’s Schools, or […]
Background On June 27, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court announced a decision which held that public employees do not have to pay union dues/fees as a condition of employment. This is commonly referred […]
Join your Anchorage community for a FREE family barbecue in the park! There will be exciting activities for all ages complete with food, face-painting, obstacle courses, and more! While you’re having fun in […]
The Freedom Foundation, another think tank in our network, does excellent work advocating for individual liberty, free enterprise, and limited, accountable government in Oregon and Washington. Working with our organization, they recently sent […]
The Alaska Journal of Commerce (AJOC) has published three very interesting pieces this week focusing on teacher pay, performance bonuses and student performance. All pieces are very readable to the lay person. In “Small […]
How would you like to get $100 for each family member and find out that it’s really $869 for each member? Well, that’s what happens in one school district when the Alaska Education […]