Alaska has received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds for education, most of which have gone straight to public school districts. Alaska Policy Forum (APF) has written extensively aboutRead More
Cash for Alaska’s School Districts: Updated
The state of Alaska has published the Alaska K–12 Education COVID-19 Federal Relief Funding Dashboard to make transparent how much federal COVID-19 relief funding school districts received and how the funds are being spent. InRead More
Background on Federal COVID-19 Education Relief Funds
Alaska has received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds, most of which have gone straight to public school districts. Collectively to date, schools have nearly $401 million in COVID-19Read More
Intensive Teacher Training: Science-Based Instruction to Help Alaska’s Students
Reading by age nine is a crucial element of academic and professional success for Alaska’s students. Students who enter fourth grade reading fluently can learn the material; students who do not enter fourthRead More
Alaska’s K–12 Spending Increase
The Alaska legislature is contemplating House Bill 272, a proposal for a $71 million/year increase in K–12 spending ($590/student in average daily attendance). Part of the justification for the proposed increase seems toRead More
Video: The Biggest Education Innovation is the Growing Use of School Choice
Watch Quinn Townsend, Policy Manager for Alaska Policy Forum, breakdown an article on school choice for CHOICE Media’s story of the day. We hope you enjoy this quick summary!