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087 – Charter Schools

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087 – Charter Schools

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Anchorage School District revokes charter of Family Partnership Charter School (Rockey / AK Public Media)
Alaska lawmakers grapple with test-score performance gap between charters and other public schools (Stremple / Alaska Beacon)
6 things to know about Alaska charter schools and why they’re No. 1 in the nation (Rockey / Alaska Public Media)

086 – Veto

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086 – Veto

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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoes major public education funding increase (Beacon / Brooks)
Alaska governor vetoes education package lawmakers overwhelmingly passed (Bohrer / AP)
OPINION: Fixing Alaska schools begins with overturning the education veto (Holleman / ADN)
Alaska Legislature plans to vote Monday on overriding governor’s veto of education bill (Stone / Alaska Public Media)
Data for Progress Alaska Polling

085 – Hardball

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085 – Hardball

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A big week in the legislature as the governor threatens to veto education funding, taxes are on the table, and the House Majority takes steps to prioritize the PFD formula in the constitution.

Alaska legislators pass education bill, but votes to override possible Dunleavy veto may be lacking (Brooks / Alaska Beacon)
Gov. Mike Dunleavy says bipartisan education funding bill ‘falls far short’ (Stone / Alaska Public Media)
Alaska House debates constitutional amendment guaranteeing Permanent Fund dividend payment (Stone / Alaska Public Media)
Anchorage School District revokes charter of Family Partnership Charter School (Rockey / Alaska Public Media)
Alaska Legislature plans March 12 vote on Gov. Dunleavy’s executive orders (Brooks / Alaska Beacon)
Alaska legislators start discussing governor’s education priorities as they face a looming veto threat (Maguire / ADN)
Proposal to define a fetus as a person in Alaska’s criminal code faces pushback (Stremple / Alaskan Beacon)
Anti-ranked choice voting initiative clears first hurdle on way to November ballot (Ruskin / Alaska Public Media)

084 – High Energy

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084 – High Energy

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In this episode we turn our attention to the energy problems on the horizon for Anchorage and the bizarre Dunleavy press conference.

Lawmakers aim numerous bills at alleviating Southcentral Alaska’s natural gas supply crunch (AK Beacon / Rosen)
ADN Politics podcast: How serious is Alaska’s natural gas crisis, really?
Federal highway officials reject Alaska transportation plan, citing 24 pages of flaws (AK Beacon / Brooks)
$5.6 billion Alaska transportation plan rejected by feds, putting road construction projects in jeopardy (ADN / Maguire)
In speech to Alaska Legislature, Murkowski shows she’s outside Trump’s grip on GOP (Ruskin / Alaska Public Media)

083 – Sending Out an SoS

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083 – Sending Out an SoS

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Alaska State of the State 2024
Alaska’s governor is trying to destroy its universities. The state may never recover (Mudde / The Guardian)
Dunleavy: Package solution needed for education in Alaska (James Brooks / Alaska Beacon)
Some skepticism as Gov. Mike Dunleavy proposes biggest use of executive power in decades (James Brooks / Alaska Beacon)
A dozen executive orders from Gov. Dunleavy draw scrutiny (Eric Stone / Alaska Public Media)