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Claire Stremple, Alaska Beacon

Claire Stremple, Alaska Beacon
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Claire Stremple is a reporter based in Juneau, Alaska. She got her start in public radio, first at KHNS in Haines and then on the health and environment beat at KTOO in Juneau. Her focus for the Beacon is education and criminal and social justice.

Alaska school districts got a one-time funding boost. It came too late for many teachers.

District leaders and teachers say their colleagues are leaving because of uncertainty in what is usually a stable profession.

Long-term boost to Alaska’s Head Start early childhood program trimmed by veto

Care providers say the money is going to salaries to retain teachers and keep centers open

Gov. Dunleavy vetoes millions intended to solve Alaska’s federal education funding equity dispute

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed the funds state legislators set aside to settle a dispute between Alaska’s education officials and their federal counterparts over whether the state spent pandemic relief equitably.

Alaska faces consequences as federal education funding equity dispute continues

State officials offered feds a $300,000 compromise instead of $17 million adjustment.

Alaska lawmakers pass child care legislation to buoy sector ‘in crisis’

The policy changes are accompanied by $7.5 million for child care center grants.

Alaska lawmakers approve additional support for addressing missing and murdered Indigenous people

Cultural training for law enforcement officers and dedicated MMIP investigators are two updates advocates sought.

Alaska Legislature adjourns after passing priority bills, but not without a last-hour struggle

House lawmakers passed five bills after midnight deadline, but a sixth caused uncertainty and anger before the end.

Alaska lawmakers support push to investigate, document forced assimilation in boarding schools 

The widely supported resolution supports a bill championed by U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski in Congress

Lawmakers to wait on Alaska Supreme Court as families reel in wake of correspondence ruling

Over the last 26 years, Penelope Gold has used the state’s correspondence school program to homeschool six of her seven children. Most have graduated,...

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