Kendall Cruz
48:32 - 49:12
“1 In 5 kids is using a correspondence school in Alaska. That is a huge percentage of our student population for us to be highly concerned about repealing or reducing the access to these programs for students that need them.”
- Speaker
- Kendall Cruz
- Timestamp
- 48:32 – 49:12
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
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From the transcript
1 In 5 kids is using a correspondence school in Alaska. That is a huge percentage of our student population for us to be highly concerned about repealing or reducing the access to these programs for students that need them. And I think that's a huge mistake. I think that unfortunately it seems as if this task force was given information that was either incorrect about how these programs work or inaccurate from people who don't understand it, or maybe an admission of people not doing it correctly. The way that they're supposed to be doing it according to the law.
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