{"id":21836,"date":"2025-03-06T18:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T03:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/?p=21836"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T03:42:22","slug":"advocate-for-funding-alaskas-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/advocate-for-funding-alaskas-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocate for funding Alaska&#8217;s schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steller Families,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Please join Steller Parent Group in holding our leaders accountable for funding Alaska&#8217;s schools.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>There is more to do!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Please write your legislators, i<\/span>f you care about:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>maintaining student classroom sizes<\/li>\n<li>retaining good teachers<\/li>\n<li>having school nurses<\/li>\n<li>sports programs<\/li>\n<li>gifted programming<\/li>\n<li>school counselors<\/li>\n<li>a quality education for your children<\/li>\n<li>and so many other programs that require more funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Also, encourage your kids to do the same &#8211; Legislatures actually listen to kids!<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">The House will vote on <\/span>HB 69 to increase the BSA this week!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h2><strong>HOW TO ADVOCATE &#8211; MADE EASY<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Just click on the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.akleg.gov\/poms\/?link_id=0&amp;can_id=9c6d31ca76010e8c2772b7ddf346462a&amp;source=email-house-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support&amp;email_referrer=email_2641386&amp;email_subject=house-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support\">public opinion message<\/a>&#8221; Click on &#8220;Support&#8221; and root bill &#8220;HB 69&#8221;, then say a few words about why you support increased funding to our schools.<\/li>\n<li>Sign the <a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/petitions\/invest-in-education?source=direct_link&amp;\">Great Alaska Schools Petition<\/a> to the governor.<\/li>\n<li>Call your <a href=\"https:\/\/akleg.gov\/docs\/akleg-legislator-contact-list-whos-who.php?link_id=1&amp;can_id=9c6d31ca76010e8c2772b7ddf346462a&amp;source=email-house-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support&amp;email_referrer=email_2641386&amp;email_subject=house-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support\">representative<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Email your representative. (Rep.FirstName.LastName@akleg.<wbr>gov)<\/li>\n<li>Learn more and find <a style=\"color: #0f3647;\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1vfZ8s7DFeJaBsFEVYiG5fF7jo379oQrw_HPPO5Eenzs\/edit?tab=t.0&amp;link_id=3&amp;can_id=9c6d31ca76010e8c2772b7ddf346462a&amp;source=email-house-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support&amp;email_referrer=email_2641386&amp;email_subject=house-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1vfZ8s7DFeJaBsFEVYiG5fF7jo379oQrw_HPPO5Eenzs\/edit?tab%3Dt.0%26link_id%3D3%26can_id%3D9c6d31ca76010e8c2772b7ddf346462a%26source%3Demail-house-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support%26email_referrer%3Demail_2641386%26email_subject%3Dhouse-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741231183494000&amp;usg=AOvVaw12ra_iZZhJdxfuLY9_qHmD\">Talking Points<\/a> at&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #0f3647;\" href=\"http:\/\/greatakschools.org\/?link_id=4&amp;can_id=9c6d31ca76010e8c2772b7ddf346462a&amp;source=email-house-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support&amp;email_referrer=email_2641386&amp;email_subject=house-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/greatakschools.org?link_id%3D4%26can_id%3D9c6d31ca76010e8c2772b7ddf346462a%26source%3Demail-house-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support%26email_referrer%3Demail_2641386%26email_subject%3Dhouse-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741231183494000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2KYHAV_kVESUvkzgOsxsPg\">greatakschools.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/akleg.gov\/index.php?link_id=2&amp;can_id=9c6d31ca76010e8c2772b7ddf346462a&amp;source=email-house-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support&amp;email_referrer=email_2641386&amp;email_subject=house-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/akleg.gov\/index.php?link_id%3D2%26can_id%3D9c6d31ca76010e8c2772b7ddf346462a%26source%3Demail-house-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support%26email_referrer%3Demail_2641386%26email_subject%3Dhouse-to-vote-on-school-funding-show-your-support&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741231183494000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1KRMhGqQEeaW3vThKKgB3_\">\u201cWho Represents Me?\u201d<\/a>&nbsp;(scroll to the bottom)<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to those who already signed SPG&#8217;s letters to the ASD Board and State Legislatures &#8211; the letters were sent with your endorsement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steller Families, Please join Steller Parent Group in holding our leaders accountable for funding Alaska&#8217;s schools. There is more to do! Please write your legislators, if you care about: maintaining student classroom sizes retaining good teachers having school nurses sports programs gifted programming school counselors a quality education for your children and so many other [&hellip;]<\/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":[110,10,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocacy","category-announcements","category-parent-group-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836","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=21836"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21841,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21836\/revisions\/21841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}