Joshua Jesse Church
271:29 - 272:14
“Homeschooling is one of the bright spots, along with charter schools, in Alaska's education system. Education system. Harvard has identified that the homeschooling community and the charter schools are the best in the country in Alaska.”
- Speaker
- Joshua Jesse Church
- Timestamp
- 271:29 – 272:14
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
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From the transcript
Homeschooling is one of the bright spots, along with charter schools, in Alaska's education system. Education system. Harvard has identified that the homeschooling community and the charter schools are the best in the country in Alaska. And yet our main public education system is amongst the worst in the country. So while I appreciate the thoughtful work to look at how do we look at more stability and financing potentially inflation-proofing, potentially doing a rolling average of funding so there's more predictability, getting the legislature to pass a budget earlier in session.
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