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Sitka School Board reports Juneau advocacy; assembly copies resolution supporting House Bill 69
Summary
The Sitka School Board updated the assembly on a February advocacy trip to Juneau and urged broader community outreach on education funding. Board President Phil Burdick praised student testimony and said the district's budget is largely personnel costs. The assembly later adopted a resolution supporting House Bill 69 on first and final reading.
Phil Burdick, Sitka School Board president, briefed the assembly Feb. 25 on recent advocacy work in Juneau and the district’s budget challenges.
Burdick said the board traveled to Juneau Feb. 8–12 to meet with legislators and that students who joined the trip provided powerful testimony before the education committee. “They all came…
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