Alaska’s House Education Committee has advanced a bill to increase the per-student education funding formula by $800, far below what education advocates say is needed to shore up public schools.
Alaska’s House Education Committee advanced a bill Wednesday to increase the per-student education funding formula by $800, far below what education advocates say is needed to shore up public schools.
“Since 2012, inflation has increased by at least 24%, while the BSA has increased only 4.2%, so although we have flat funded education in recent years, because of inflation, spending power for education has actually decreased by about 20%,” said Rep. Dan Ortiz, I-Ketchikan, who sponsored the original bill.
“My feeling is the foundation formula black box needs to be reformed before we add more funding,” said McKay, arguing that the money should be tied to accountability measures such as student test scores. “It doesn’t put the money where we need it to go.” “We don’t just represent our own districts. We have needs that are greater than that in some areas of our state,” said Ortiz.
“I’m not in love with this but I’m happy to get it moving,” said Himschoot. “Our job is to get this to Finance and I’m counting on Finance to give this a good look.”
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