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Dunleavy calls special session while legislator is on deployment in bid to skirt veto overrides

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Gov. Dunleavy called a special session starting at the beginning of August, ostensibly to push for policies that legislators have already rejected.
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Dunleavy compounds rural school troubles with latest veto of teacher housing bill

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For a governor who supposedly cares deeply about schools and rural Alaskans, Dunleavy doesn’t seem interested in making their lives easier.
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Dunleavy’s oil tax secrecy reveals the faults in Alaska’s oil system

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Alaska’s oil tax system is complicated even by tax standards.
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Dunleavy’s veto of oil tax transparency bill leaves legislators wondering, ‘What are you hiding?’

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On Monday, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy vetoed a bill that legislators had hoped would shed light on how his administration is handling oil and gas taxes
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Hiring teachers from the Philippines could mean brain drain for Filipino schools

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When Alaska school administrators toured Pajo Elementary School, each class greeted them by welcoming them to the Philippines in both English and in Filipino.
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New teachers are latest wave in the centuries-long history of Filipinos in Alaska

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The first Filipino known to visit Alaska came in 1788, aboard a Spanish trading ship called the Iphigenia Nubiana.
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From island nation to an island in Alaska: how Filipino teachers adjust to their new lives

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Carmela Sison is one of Kodiak’s new special education teachers from the Philippines.
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Dunleavy, a self-styled education governor, slashes public school funding once again

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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy became the first-ever governor in state history to veto school funding below the level laid out in state law.
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With the upcoming veto deadline, Dunleavy can seal his anti-school legacy

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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has until Monday to decide whether to fund schools at the status quo levels or veto public school funding.
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For teachers from the Philippines, getting hired to work in Alaska is only the first step

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Julieth Tapado was one of hundreds of teachers waiting for the chance to impress recruiters from Alaska school districts earlier this year.
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Alaska schools need teachers. They’re hiring them from the Philippines.

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Serjoe Gutierrez, who was born and raised in the Philippines, was in his fifth year of teaching there when he decided to try to work in another country.
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Amid gas crunch, Alaska could revoke leases from a company whose drilling has stalled

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The Dunleavy administration is threatening to strip Texas-based BlueCrest Energy of oil and gas leases near Anchorage, saying it’s failed to advance development that could delay urban Alaska’s impending gas shortage.
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