State officials offered the federal government a $300,000 compromise instead of $17 million adjustment.
A dispute between Alaska’s education officials and their federal counterparts over whether the state spent pandemic relief equitably has had its first tangible consequence: the state must receive a federal OK before it can spend nearly $1 million in grants.” for receiving future grants because it says the state has not equitably distributed funds among its districts. State officials contest this assertion.
“The consequence is only with the administrative fees at the state level,” she said at the meeting. She said the department does not have plans to spend that money. Assistant Attorney General Susan Sonneborn said that if the federal government withheld money based on the “high-risk” designation, the state could file an administrative appeal.The heart of the disagreement is over a new provision to pandemic-era education grants, called “maintenance of equity.” The idea behind it is that the federal government would give out huge grants, so long as states made sure that they were distributed fairly.
Alaska has a complicated per pupil funding formula that was designed to maintain equity among the state’s students and schools. Bishop points to that formula when she counters the federal assessment. In Alaska’s case, officials say it is likely those mechanisms affected total per pupil funding as many students switched to home or correspondence school during the pandemic.
Bishop’s correspondence with federal officials has repeatedly cited court cases where states had prevailed in funding arguments. The department did not address questions about whether or not it would pursue litigation against the federal government or why only the Fairbanks district was addressed in its compromise proposal.for the upcoming fiscal year to allow the state to come into compliance with the federal government’s grant requirements and recover its good standing.
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