The debate comes as school districts across the state brace for significant cuts.
Reps. CJ McCormick, D-Bethel, left, Bryce Edgmon, I-Dillingham, center, and Neal Foster, D-Nome, speak during a House floor session on Feb. 19, 2024.
“I did not know what button I was going to push,” Edgmon said. “But when it came down to it, after a whole bunch of soul-searching, talking with a couple of my brethren from the Bush Caucus, before I can vote on a bill that has a lot of provisions in it, which are really unvetted — I don’t know what this charter school provision does. I don’t know what the amendment does. Yet we’re about to have that committee as a whole discussion, apparently.
Rules Committee chair Rep. Craig Johnson, an Anchorage Republican, encouraged lawmakers to allow debate to go forward. Johnson argued it was at least worth talking through the merits of the bill.
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