Rachel Blakeslee
56:18 - 57:29
"the first bullet here on classroom teachers, that $6.8 million, the language here reads that it would provide 50.5 FTE for classroom teachers to adjust the metric for elementary special specialist teachers to provide planning time for elementary teachers"
“the first bullet here on classroom teachers, that $6.8 million, the language here reads that it would provide 50.5 FTE for classroom teachers to adjust the metric for elementary special specialist teachers to provide planning time for elementary teachers”
- Speaker
- Rachel Blakeslee
- Timestamp
- 56:18 – 57:29
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 7, 2026
From the transcript
Member Blakeslee. I have a question on a different topic as we, uh, converse about topics of complexity. So the first bullet here on classroom teachers, that $6.8 million, the language here reads that it would provide 50.5 FTE for classroom teachers to adjust the metric for elementary special specialist teachers to provide planning time for elementary teachers. So I was hoping for some clarity about what that specifically means, and I— and just— and maybe just correct me if I'm wrong, but the way that I interpret that is that because we have cut so deep, um, in the, the FTE cuts for schools including elementary that perhaps, um, the specialists that we do not have anymore now prevent some of those elementary teachers from having the planning time that they need. And I, I guess I'm wondering if that's what this means, that these are hiring of specialist teachers to ensure, like what it says, that some of those teachers get planning time.
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