Legislative leaders met with the governor Monday to try to reach another education deal ahead of a fast-approaching March 14 deadline. But the threat of a Dunleavy budget veto was unresolved.
JUNEAU — Alaska state legislators have started discussing a potential education deal to meet the governor’s ultimatum issued last week over school funding.that overwhelmingly passed the Legislature unless lawmakers adopted some of his top education priorities. The governor, a Republican, said last week those priorities include teacher bonuses and measures to expand charter school access in Alaska.
The governor’s office said Dunleavy will be in Washington D.C., this week for a long-planned trip, but that he would be in continual contact with legislators. Dunleavy said last week that legislators should pass a new set of education policies now, and discuss how to fund them later. Supporters of SB 140 have been concerned that Dunleavy could veto school funding in the budget, regardless of whether they approve the governor’s education priorities.
”Without that assurance that he’s not going to veto the budget, I’m unwilling to move any further on the education bill,” Stevens said. Anchorage School Board president Margo Bellamy, echoing school administrators across the state, spoke in opposition to the governor’s proposed change and said the current approval system worked where school boards authorize new charter schools.Anchorage Democratic Sen.
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