Kelly Lessens
13:20 - 14:28
"President Jacobs said in that meeting, I want to send the legislature a bill, right? And this gives the administration space to develop its own guidelines for pushing effectively, for pushing at the bill for the delta for the class sizes that we have not been able to attain for a very, very long time and don't appear to be able to attain in the near future."
“President Jacobs said in that meeting, I want to send the legislature a bill, right? And this gives the administration space to develop its own guidelines for pushing effectively, for pushing at the bill for the delta for the class sizes that we have not been able to attain for a very, very long time and don't appear to be able to attain in the near future.”
- Speaker
- Kelly Lessens
- Timestamp
- 13:20 – 14:28
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- June 13, 2026
From the transcript
Number one, it is to the best of my understanding, having watched the Governance Committee meeting this morning, really early on, my sense is that there was a conversation that administrative regulations could be developed to better spell out how information will be disseminated. And I'm paraphrasing here. The, I think that the critical, right, President Jacobs said in that meeting, I want to send the legislature a bill, right? And this gives the administration space to develop its own guidelines for pushing effectively, for pushing at the bill for the delta for the class sizes that we have not been able to attain for a very, very long time and don't appear to be able to attain in the near future. And so coming from that conversation, and it's also coming from language that is already in Board Policy 5040.
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