JUNEAU, Alaska—
The state Senate Education Committee started discussion of a plan Monday that would change how Alaska intervenes in struggling school districts. A House bill takes a different approach to the same issue.Some aspects of the intervention process have been lauded as successful: districts have said they especially like extra training for teachers and on-site efforts to improve reading and writing skills. But concerns have been voiced by officials from the only district to be issued a state trustee. Officials from Yupiit School District say their voice is not being heard in the process.
A bill commissioned for the Senate Education Committee, SB194, would affirm local involvement, but House Education Chair Rep. Alan Dick, suggests in HB256 that the process needs a complete overhaul.
Both bills are pending committee hearings.
