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State representative briefs Petersburg on education funding task force and major-maintenance priorities
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Rep. Rebecca Hemshutt told Petersburg officials the legislature's education funding task force is studying the formula and expects recommendations this fall, and she said major maintenance will likely be a near-term funding focus; she noted Petersburg has several projects on the state'wide list.
Representative Rebecca Hemshutt told a joint Petersburg Borough'school board work session that the legislature's education funding task force (House Bill 57) is reviewing Alaska's school funding formula and is expected to publish recommendations in September or October.
"We created an education funding task force," Hemshutt said, adding the district cost factor in the funding formula has not been updated in roughly 20 years. "We should have the recommendations published in September, October." Hemshutt said the task force is looking at adequacy, chronic absenteeism,…
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