Paul McDonogh
32:46 - 33:42
"one of the larger intents here is that we don't unintentionally endorse the legislative position on class sizes. Um, I think people in this room especially know Alaska has local defined in our state constitution. And I actually was a critic of the HB 165, but then it's, it's movement into other bills, uh, because the state can recommend whatever it wants, but it's up to us to actually determine what is our standard."
“one of the larger intents here is that we don't unintentionally endorse the legislative position on class sizes. Um, I think people in this room especially know Alaska has local defined in our state constitution. And I actually was a critic of the HB 165, but then it's, it's movement into other bills, uh, because the state can recommend whatever it wants, but it's up to us to actually determine what is our standard.”
- Speaker
- Paul McDonogh
- Timestamp
- 32:46 – 33:42
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 13, 2026
From the transcript
We're on the underlying board memorandum 178, which is BP 6191 class size. As amended, is there additional discussion? Just a quick— like, broadly speaking, um, the— one of the larger intents here is that we don't unintentionally endorse the legislative position on class sizes. Um, I think people in this room especially know Alaska has local defined in our state constitution. And I actually was a critic of the HB 165, but then it's, it's movement into other bills, uh, because the state can recommend whatever it wants, but it's up to us to actually determine what is our standard.
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