Trevor Storrs

Anchorage day cares say a grant cut could force them to close

“the operational was $2.4 million. Okay. So this is, uh, $765,000 divided by— it is, uh, basically a decrease of just shy of 70% of what people got.”

Anchorage child care fund squeezed by programs moved from alcohol tax

“We do not have enough funds to do what we want to do.”

Anchorage's alcohol tax can't fund everything it was promised to fund — and a board meeting Tuesday made the tradeoff explicit

“That leaves $3 million, which greatly changes how we put money out. Or we don't fund ASD, they don't have funding to fill that in. That's 8 classrooms with 100-plus, maybe 200-plus, I don't know, kids that would then lose that preschool.”

RTO schedules closed subcommittee meetings for June 10–11

“Anything else from the board?”

Alaska children on Medicaid face triple the rate of severe childhood trauma

“suicide has been the leading cause of death for Alaskans aged 15 to 24, with the rate remaining at 42.3 per 100,000”

Alaska eyes $3B carbon revenue from 600,000 burned acres

Alaska, Forest Service sign 20-year shared stewardship timber deal

Senate approves mental health education bill after six-year push

Alaska House passes mental health education bill after emotional debate

Alaska Advances Mental Health Education Guidelines Without Mandates

House Finance Advances Mental Health Education Guidelines for Schools