The bill says that five Alaska schools will be chosen for the pilot projects and, if all goes well, they could open as soon as fall 2025.
Joel Isaak, Tribal Liaison for the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, testifying on Senate Bill 34 in the Senate Education Committee.
The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development originally proposed a bill to allow a series of pilot project schools. Under its version, the schools would have opened as soon as the fall of 2023.approved by the Senate gives the state education department and tribes more time to flesh out what the pilot projects will look like.
“The immediate effect is the time to scope, the time to come up with a plan, and it brings tribes directly into the process,” said Isaak. The Alaska Senate’s tribal education compacting bill is part of a larger effort this year by the Legislature to tackle poor student outcomes in the state. “The head of AFN tried to define how tribal members are brought into a tribe, and no one could give me clear guidelines,” Reinbold said. “I guess each tribe gets to bring in members how they wish. When they want sovereignty and when they wanna create their own schools, we need to know exactly what the tribe is, what they stand for, who’s allowed to be in, etc.”
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