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The Alaska GOP is holding its convention in Anchorage this week.
The governor floated an “education dividend” to replace correspondence program allotments.
U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola raised $1.7 million in the first three months of the year.
Over 20,000 correspondence students in Alaska could see significant changes to their education under the ruling late Friday.
The ruling takes aim at public funds going to private schools and could potentially have major implications for the nearly 20,000 correspondence school students in Alaska.
The proposed amendment needed 27 votes to advance to the Senate. It fell five votes short.
Taking into account other bills that are expected to pass along with the capital budget, the House’s spending plan was expected to be at least $276 million in deficit.
The bill, approved by the Senate on Thursday, heads next to Gov. Mike Dunleavy.
The funding could provide shelter to 200 people through the summer.
The bill passed in a 28-12 vote and now returns to the Senate for a concurrence vote
Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski spoke about her dissatisfaction with the choices in the upcoming presidential election and her perspective on partisanship in Washington.
The House considered more than a dozen amendments to the bill in a contentious three-hour floor debate.
Under the plan, the Alaska Marine Highway System could receive federal grants without a promising a state match.
An Anchorage facility leased for the institute remains closed.
Three voters are asking an Anchorage judge to invalidate a ballot measure seeking to repeal Alaska’s voting system.