Pat Higgins
72:03 - 72:26
"I still don't know why Campbell, the only STEM program, gets cut the same year we approve a STEM high school"
“I still don't know why Campbell, the only STEM program, gets cut the same year we approve a STEM high school”
- Speaker
- Pat Higgins
- Timestamp
- 72:03 – 72:26
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 18, 2026
From the transcript
I would almost prefer to see this resolution to read with our commitment of what we will do. We need to look at why did we select the schools we did. I still don't know why Campbell, the only STEM program, gets cut the same year we approve a STEM high school because we want parents to better send their kids to the type of school they want. So we take away the only STEM school out there. We, we looked at the funding issue.
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