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A group of first grade students play on the playground at Sayéik Gastineau Community School on Jan. 14, 2021, in Juneau, Alaska.
But during an April 5 press call, Alaska Department of Education and Early Development Commissioner Deena Bishop said Alaska followed its funding formula as usual during the pandemic. Bishop said districts lost students during those years. Since state funding is based on enrollment in a district, a drop in enrollment means a drop in state funding.Alaska’s school funding formula starts with a base amount per student — called the base student allocation — for things like school size, the number of students with intensive special needs and other factors specific to each district.
All those factors mean state funding varies from year to year. During the pandemic, as some students dropped out of brick and mortar schools and Bishop stressed that the maintenance of equity requirement was the first of its kind.
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