Alaska Education Commissioner Deena Bishop on Monday sent a letter to school superintendents, urging them to advocate for Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s education priorities or risk seeing school funding vetoed ...

With a month left in the legislative session, multiple lawmakers said it would be difficult to craft an education measure ...

Concerns over the state's ability to pay for the $1,000 per-student increase in basic funding, given its worsening fiscal ...

The Alaska Legislature, as widely expected, failed Tuesday to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a $1,000 increase in ...

On Tuesday night, as the buzzer sounded on the Golden State Warriors’ play-in win, Mike Dunleavy felt a surge of relief.

Mike Dunleavy. School administrators, parents, businesspeople and community leaders have pleaded with lawmakers to boost education funding for years, and there’s broad agreement that the state ...

JUNEAU — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday vetoed a $1,000 increase to the Base Student Allocation, the state’s per-student funding formula. The move prompted lawmakers to plan a joint ...

Mike Dunleavy's veto of a $1,000 increase to the Base Student Allocation, the state's per-student funding formula. However, lawmakers and advocacy groups engaged on the issue expect the veto ...

Apr. 22—JUNEAU — The Alaska Legislature on Tuesday failed to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy's veto of a significant funding increase for the state's public schools — a $1,000 increase to the ...