Kelly Lessens
101:10 - 102:14
"the amendment is essentially to strike the English language arts grade 6 through 10 curriculum for $2.7 million bullet point and the supporting language on page 2 of the Memorandum 006 and replace that expenditure in that language with the following investments, which total the same $2.7 million. The first bullet point is $1.2 million... $1.2 million for 9 additional classroom teacher holdback FTE to address class size bubbles and scheduling conflicts at all levels."
“the amendment is essentially to strike the English language arts grade 6 through 10 curriculum for $2.7 million bullet point and the supporting language on page 2 of the Memorandum 006 and replace that expenditure in that language with the following investments, which total the same $2.7 million. The first bullet point is $1.2 million... $1.2 million for 9 additional classroom teacher holdback FTE to address class size bubbles and scheduling conflicts at all levels.”
- Speaker
- Kelly Lessens
- Timestamp
- 101:10 – 102:14
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 7, 2026
From the transcript
Okay, so I'm going to direct board members to, um, the papers that America gave you. The first one on top should be labeled Lessons Amendment 1, and I will flag that due to our conversation, there slight difference, uh, towards the back of the second page. But for the purposes of working through this amendment, I'm going to talk through it right now. So the amendment is essentially to strike the English language arts grade 6 through 10 curriculum for $2.7 million bullet point and the supporting language on page 2 of the Memorandum 006 and replace that expenditure in that language with the following investments, which total the same $2.7 million. The first bullet point is $1.2 million, and I'm paraphrasing here, $1.2 million for 9 additional classroom teacher holdback FTE to address class size bubbles and scheduling conflicts at all levels.
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