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Economy

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.
Economy

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.
Economy

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.
Education

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.
Commentary

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.
Economy

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.
Economy

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.
Environment

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.
Economy

New Alaska Bitcoin mine would use as much power as the state’s largest coal plant produces

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The startup planning the operation near the North Slope oil fields would power its computers not with coal but with another fossil fuel: natural gas that’s currently going unused.
News

Did the Dunleavy administration cut sweetheart tax deals with oil companies? Legislators are trying to find out.

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Alaska legislative leaders are demanding Dunleavy address an “overall pattern of peculiarities” in the state’s collection of oil and gas tax.
News

GOP refusal to balance their budget puts AIDEA and state scholarship fund on the chopping block

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The impact on both AIDEA operations and the state’s scholarship program under either scenario isn’t immediately clear.
News

Alaska Legislature passed a law capping predatory payday loans. Republicans said it was anti-freedom

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A long-running effort to protect Alaskans from predatory payday loan schemes cleared the Alaska Legislature in its closing days.
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