Tag: Education funding

City council joins peninsula voices advocating for increased BSA

The Homer City Council unanimously passed a resolution at their Jan. 22 regular meeting advocating for increased education funding. Resolution 24-015 requests that the State of Alaska make a “meaningful and timely” increase to the base student allocation for public schools. This measure follows others taken this year, including the unanimous passing of Resolution 2024-002 […]

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Budget deficit continues to steer school board talks

Warnings about the implications and scale of the budget deficit the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is facing for the upcoming fiscal year again dominated meetings of the board of education, which met Monday in Soldotna. KPBSD in September warned that it would be starting its budget cycle with a $13 million difference between revenues […]

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Assembly calls on state to increase K-12 funding

The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly is calling on the Alaska Legislature to increase and inflation-proof the amount of money the state spends on K-12 education per student, also called the base student allocation. Assembly members unanimously backed — and all sponsored — a resolution during their regular meeting on Tuesday requesting that the State of […]

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