{"id":21789,"date":"2025-02-07T19:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/?p=21789"},"modified":"2025-02-11T08:26:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T17:26:03","slug":"school-budget-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/school-budget-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"School Budget Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Steller families,<\/span><\/p>\n

As you may know, state budget problems are affecting our schools. Recent news that public schools will need to cut teachers, with Steller cutting 3.4 teachers, is hitting our community hard. <\/span><\/p>\n

Part of Steller Parent Group\u2019s mission is \u201cto solicit, address, and make recommendations regarding issues facing the School community.\u201d As such, the current SPG board would like to encourage you to reach out to both the Anchorage School Board and the Alaska State Legislature to advocate for sufficient funding of Alaska\u2019s public schools. Those making decisions about education financing need to hear from parents to understand how their choices directly affect students. Many voices can make a difference.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ways to share input include:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Read the letters Steller Parent Group will be sending to the <\/span>school board<\/span><\/a> and to <\/span>state legislatures<\/span><\/a>. If you would like to sign them, send an email to <\/span>chairspg2@gmail.com<\/span><\/a> to indicate your interest.<\/li>\n
  2. Provide public or written comments to the <\/span>school board<\/span><\/a> (the next meeting is February 18th at which time educational funding allocation will be voted on).<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Write your own letter to state legislatures in support of approving bills that will increase the Base Student Allocation, which increases the funding per student. For your convenience, here is a list of emails of AK State Finance and Education Committee members.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Sign <\/span>Great Alaska School\u2019s petition<\/span><\/a> to the Governor.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Find good <\/span>resources<\/span><\/a> for speaking up.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For more detailed information on recent school funding issues, see some of the links<\/a> here.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Please join us in holding Alaska\u2019s leaders accountable.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Sincerely, Steller Parent Group Board<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Dear Steller families, As you may know, state budget problems are affecting our schools. Recent news that public schools will need to cut teachers, with Steller cutting 3.4 teachers, is hitting our community hard.  Part of Steller Parent Group\u2019s mission is \u201cto solicit, address, and make recommendations regarding issues facing the School community.\u201d As such, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-committee-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21789"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21803,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21789\/revisions\/21803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}