In Ketchikan, school district officials are looking at cutting nearly 60 jobs. But they’re hopeful that the Alaska Legislature will ease the pressure by boosting state education funding.
School districts around the state are grappling with holes in their budgets for the coming school year.
Some students might be moving to private schools. But Robbins said the vast majority of the drop is simply due to the fact that fewer people are raising their children here.That’s in line with statewide trends. Alaska’s population is aging, and fewer people are raising kids in the state. Next year, school districts are scheduled to receive a little under $6,000 per student. That’s about what it’s been for the past six years. The Legislature voted last year to increase the per-student amount, known as the base student allocation, by $30 bucks a kid. That’s 0.5%.“Through inflation, increases in energy costs, increases in transportation costs with gasoline … budgeting has been very difficult for us,” he said.
Many districts are struggling to fill basic jobs like custodians, cafeteria workers and teachers. In Nome, School Board President Sandy Martinson told lawmakers that her district loses about 20% of her staff every year. She says the salaries she’s able to offer just don’t cover the costs of life in rural Alaska. She’s calling for more funding.
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