Paul McDonogh
137:13 - 138:32
"I would love to have visits to schools. I would love to make myself available for the full day which both teachers requested, if that can be done by the principal... I very much look forward to bringing what I saw in those students' voices who are often so silent back to this body so that we can understand what their children need and more importantly bring those stories to the city government, which is currently deliberating how much to fund next year's education, and to the lawmakers in Juneau who are going to gavel in in January and start deciding how much education is worth then."
“I would love to have visits to schools. I would love to make myself available for the full day which both teachers requested, if that can be done by the principal... I very much look forward to bringing what I saw in those students' voices who are often so silent back to this body so that we can understand what their children need and more importantly bring those stories to the city government, which is currently deliberating how much to fund next year's education, and to the lawmakers in Juneau who are going to gavel in in January and start deciding how much education is worth then.”
- Speaker
- Paul McDonogh
- Timestamp
- 137:13 – 138:32
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- September 1, 2026
From the transcript
Um, I need to know what our business is doing for our children, and particularly for the high-needs children in, in that gentleman's class and Mr. Tyson— I mean, at Tyson Elementary. So, um, I would love to have visits to schools. I would love to make myself available for the full day which both teachers requested, if that can be done by the principal. I understand running a school can be hard, and if it can work, I very much look forward to bringing what I saw in those students' voices who are often so silent back to this body so that we can understand what their children need and more importantly bring those stories to the city government, which is currently deliberating how much to fund next year's education, and to the lawmakers in Juneau who are going to gavel in in January and start deciding how much education is worth then. We know we do not have enough resources, and it's teachers like them two who are really suffering the most under this weight, and I would love to see their stories reach all the way to the halls of Juneau know, and getting the dollars back into our classrooms.
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