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Jim Anderson
14:55 - 15:17
"even though your revenue, you don't have a gain in revenue, you have those core staffs at those schools that are no longer competing against every other school and the same amount of money."
“even though your revenue, you don't have a gain in revenue, you have those core staffs at those schools that are no longer competing against every other school and the same amount of money.”
- Speaker
- Jim Anderson
- Timestamp
- 14:55 – 15:17
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- August 26, 2026
From the transcript
But what you don't have on year 5 is that same principal, custodian, nurse, librarian still competing for fewer dollars. So even though your revenue, you don't have a gain in revenue, you have those core staffs at those schools that are no longer competing against every other school and the same amount of money.
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