Dora Wilson
19:11 - 20:05
"I understand that the legislature would like to see certain class sizes. We don't have the budget for that. I also absolutely would love to see the lower class sizes, which our students need and deserve. Again, we don't have the budget for that"
“I understand that the legislature would like to see certain class sizes. We don't have the budget for that. I also absolutely would love to see the lower class sizes, which our students need and deserve. Again, we don't have the budget for that”
- Speaker
- Dora Wilson
- Timestamp
- 19:11 – 20:05
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 13, 2026
From the transcript
So I also appreciate this policy in part because I understand that the legislature would like to see certain class sizes. We don't have the budget for that. I also absolutely would love to see the lower class sizes, which our students need and deserve. Again, we don't have the budget for that, but I don't think the general public or even the legislature really has an understanding from year to year because they, they're not in, in the mix of every day of the nuts and bolts of how things are structured. And had many conversations with many folks in the general public, even people who have kids in schools that don't necessarily understand the association between the money we're receiving from the state and how we can allocate that, plus the increase in costs over the years.
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