Senate passes version of operating budget with lower PFD as governor addresses correspondence ruling status

Juneau, Alaska - With about two weeks left in the current session, Senate lawmakers on Wednesday officially passed their version of the state operating budget, which now heads for the House.

The Senate also added $11.9 million to comply with the federal government’s 2022 maintenance of equity requirement, as the feds told the state in March that state funding was not adequate for Alaska’s highest-needs schools. “Alaska is under attack from the current president of the United States,” said Sen. Mike Shower, R-Wasilla. “Sixty-four I believe is the number we are at, direct, direct executive orders shutting this state down.”

Now that the Senate has approved its version of the budget, it will be sent to the House for a vote. Unless a majority of House members agree to the changes made by the Senate, the budget will be sent to a conference committee to work out the differences between the two versions. The governor also emphasized that Alaska’s correspondence system is not like a voucher system, in which reimbursements go straight to an institution; instead, families are reimbursed for their educational expenses, including, for example, private tutors.

State lawmakers have been preparing legislation in preparation of only a short-term stay being granted, or the Alaska Supreme Court upholding the judge’s ruling. Last week, state House lawmakers moved to send a judge reviewing a state appeal on homeschool funding constitutionality an official request to delay a decision until next summer., sponsored by Senate Education Chair Sen.

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