Mary Dewar
32:00 - 32:18
"our school nurses, uh, really there needs to be one school nurse per building. I work with students that have feeding and swallowing issues, at risk to choke, and, um, yeah, there's many of them in, in most of the schools."
“our school nurses, uh, really there needs to be one school nurse per building. I work with students that have feeding and swallowing issues, at risk to choke, and, um, yeah, there's many of them in, in most of the schools.”
- Speaker
- Mary Dewar
- Timestamp
- 32:00 – 32:18
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Mat-Su Borough
- Captured at
- August 26, 2026
From the transcript
I will continue to recommend our community please push and state level. And, you know, it'd be great if they fully funded IDEA. You can speak to Senator Sullivan about that and Senator Murkowski about that. Anyway, okay, and our school nurses, uh, really there needs to be one school nurse per building. I work with students that have feeding and swallowing issues, at risk to choke, and, um, yeah, there's many of them in, in most of the schools.
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