For the upcoming legislative session, which starts in Juneau in January, the House Majority Coalition has identified committee chairs and priorities for the next session. One area in which the coalition is likely to separate itself from the House Majority last session is education.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In outlining their Alaska legislative priorities, the House’s new bipartisan leadership appears likely to separate themselves from last session’s conservative-leaning majority, who stood with Gov. Mike Dunleavy as he vetoed a compressive education package.
When it came to education legislation last session, with the exception of a few members, the majority voted to sustain Dunleavy’s veto on a comprehensive education bill, SB 140.would have provided permanent funding for education with a $680 increase to per-student funding, known as the Base Student Allocation. Additionally, it would allocate funds for school transportation, rural internet, correspondence schools, and addressing reading deficiencies.
Edgmon and Foster joined the mostly Democratic House Minority in voting to override the governor’s veto, which failed by one vote. “I think for me, the message is they’re upset with the legislature, and we got to do things different - whether that’s, you know, education or energy, whatever the issue is. There were certain priorities in certain districts that maybe the voters were upset about. I definitely, you know, education is obviously an issue for Anchorage,” Coulombe said.
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