Alaska charter principals say they greatly favor the existing local control of school districts.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy is pressing lawmakers to pass his plan for a new state process for approving charter schools. He’s threatening to veto the“We need to work on the charter school part so that we can ensure that anybody that wants to attend a charter school can do that so there’s a couple things we have to work on,” Dunleavyin late February. “We’ve got half the job done but if it’s just going to be about money and nothing else I’m not interested in having this bill become law.”.
Cody McCanna is principal of Aurora Borealis Charter School in Kenai. He doesn’t think it’s a good idea. Students at Alaska Native Cultural Charter School hold up letters that read “quyana” during an assembly on Feb. 20, 2024. Lisa Leeper, the principal at Anvil City Science Academy in Nome, has over two decades of experience in Alaska charter schools. She said that rural charter schools would also struggle without the foundational support of their local school district.
Barbara Gerard has been principal at Academy Charter School in Palmer since it opened in 1996. She said DEED used to have a charter school coordinator position that was cut due to budget constraints over a decade ago. Dunleavy declined an interview request for this story. In an email, Dunleavy said he “wants to increase the availability of charter schools. By providing a streamlined authorization process, new charter schools could enroll their first cohort of students sooner. If there were an equilibrium of charter school demand and charter school supply, this proposal would be moot, but demand is greater than supply.
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