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Rachel Blakeslee
16:53 - 17:39
"the curriculum piece threw me by surprise. It— I feel a little bit blindsided by it because it's a very large dollar amount that I think I'm seeing for the first time. I didn't know anything about, um, and, and is a big chunk of money, especially when we're talking about a spending plan for a dollar size that's almost equivalent to the amount of money that we we're advocating for the public around the levy."
“the curriculum piece threw me by surprise. It— I feel a little bit blindsided by it because it's a very large dollar amount that I think I'm seeing for the first time. I didn't know anything about, um, and, and is a big chunk of money, especially when we're talking about a spending plan for a dollar size that's almost equivalent to the amount of money that we we're advocating for the public around the levy.”
- Speaker
- Rachel Blakeslee
- Timestamp
- 16:53 – 17:39
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 7, 2026
From the transcript
And so I will just say, reading this proposal, there were a lot of surprises in this proposed budget spending plan. Um, again, lots of questions, but the curriculum piece threw me by surprise. It— I feel a little bit blindsided by it because it's a very large dollar amount that I think I'm seeing for the first time. I didn't know anything about, um, and, and is a big chunk of money, especially when we're talking about a spending plan for a dollar size that's almost equivalent to the amount of money that we we're advocating for the public around the levy. And so this is a plan that differs pretty greatly from what we had committed to the public.
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