Legislators appropriated $5.2 million this year to fund the Alaska Reads Act that Gov. Mike Dunleavy then vetoed.
JUNEAU — The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development wants to hire an external evaluator on a $750,000 contract to study howThe external evaluator would help write an annual report on reading improvement programs, and study their cost effectiveness — among other responsibilities. The education department’s contract was put out for bid Thursday.Legislators appropriated $5.2 million in May to fund reading support after school administrators complained that the law was underfunded.
Palmer Republican Sen. Shelley Hughes, who strongly supported the Alaska Reads Act, said Friday that hiring an external evaluator made sense because the state had effectively transitioned from one statewide test to another. Sen. Löki Tobin, D-Anchorage, who was a key legislative staff member behind the Alaska Reads Act, said in June that the law’s implementation had been “a bit of a mixed bag.”
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