Jharrett Bryantt
4:29 - 5:31
"this proposal also includes a full funding for a grades 6 through 10 ELA curriculum, which is in need of replacement because the current product Springboard is set to be phased out by the vendor. This could be an area in which the board could choose to fully fund the curriculum or instead amend the proposal later tonight to fund the curriculum in phases, and the latter would give room to add additional resources for students such as teacher holdback positions"
“this proposal also includes a full funding for a grades 6 through 10 ELA curriculum, which is in need of replacement because the current product Springboard is set to be phased out by the vendor. This could be an area in which the board could choose to fully fund the curriculum or instead amend the proposal later tonight to fund the curriculum in phases, and the latter would give room to add additional resources for students such as teacher holdback positions”
- Speaker
- Jharrett Bryantt
- Timestamp
- 4:29 – 5:31
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 7, 2026
From the transcript
Of note, this proposal also includes a full funding for a grades 6 through 10 ELA curriculum, which is in need of replacement because the current product Springboard is set to be phased out by the vendor. This could be an area in which the board could choose to fully fund the curriculum or instead amend the proposal later tonight to fund the curriculum in phases, and the latter would give room to add additional resources for students such as teacher holdback positions, just as one example. So Our presentation tonight will walk you through potential options for how to proceed. And lastly, the public may have read in the media that ASD could receive additional one-time revenue from the state beyond the $11.6 million that we'll be discussing tonight. Those additional dollars are not in the budget revision tonight because the statute states that the amount of those dollars is contingent on projected surplus oil revenues as determined by the Revenue Commissioner in late August.
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