The budget signed Friday provides for a Permanent Fund dividend of roughly $1,718 per Alaskan.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed the state’s $12.2 billion operating budget Friday. He trimmed some $225 million in planned spending from the state’s
Left untouched, though, was roughly $175 million in one-time funding for school districts across the state included by the Legislature. That’s roughly equivalent to $680 in base per-student funding. Dunleavy signaled May 1 that heThe governor vetoed an additional $5.2 million funding boost for young students in low-income schools and $2.6 million for Head Start. He also vetoed $11.9 million the Legislature had set aside toover the distribution of pandemic-era school funding.
The budget includes some $53 million in funding for affordable housing programs, and $63 million for school maintenance. There’s also $87 million for the University of Alaska, but the governor cut a $20 million request aimed at making the Fairbanks campus a Tier 1 research university by about 25%.
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