A lawsuit is challenging a decision by the Dunleavy administration that emptied Alaska’s $410 million higher-education trust fund last year, eliminating a reliable source of funding for college scholarships and the state’s equivalent of medical school
that decision to the Alaska Supreme Court, which meant there was no opportunity for a broader ruling that could have prevented additional lawsuits like the one filed Tuesday.
In a statement sent to University of Alaska supporters on Tuesday, Pitney said the university supports the lawsuit. In that role, Pitney — as had prior budget officials — considered the higher-education fund and rural-electricity fund as unaffected by a provision in the state constitution that automatically sweeps unspent money into the state’s Constitutional Budget Reserve at the end of the fiscal year.
Jeff Turner, the governor’s deputy communications director, disputes that the relabeling was “a major shift in interpretation.”
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