State funding is now just under $6,000 per student. It’s been flat-funded — that means not adjusted for inflation — since 2016. Two bills in the House would increase per-student funding and tie it to inflation.
Students head upstairs during a break between classes at Thunder Mountain High School on Monday, August 16, 2021, in Juneau. A pair of bills in the Alaska House could partially make up for long-standing issues with Alaska’s base student allocation.
in 2015. School board member Will Muldoon explained that the cost of those projects, combined with a decrease in enrollment in Juneau, means that there’s a higher burden on the city to pay for schools. School Board President Elizabeth Siddon says that’s created a funding deficit, which impacts how many staff members Juneau schools are able to hire.
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