Adrienne Michael
29:11 - 29:45
"the reality is the money is available and you can impact this school year right now."
“the reality is the money is available and you can impact this school year right now.”
- Speaker
- Adrienne Michael
- Timestamp
- 29:11 – 29:45
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 4, 2026
From the transcript
I've spent the last 2 years looking at way more of this data than I would like to and fighting fights that I never wanted to be a part of. Right now, you can make a positive impact on students' ability to learn this year. The money is available and the school year has not started, so adding teachers to classrooms and taking some of this pressure off is a very impactful action. You can make the what-if and the but-next budget arguments all you want, but the reality is the money is available and you can impact this school year right now. Leaving class sizes so large will without a doubt impact MCLASS and STAAR testing results, as well as what's actually learned during the year.
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