Once again, the Dunleavy administration has knowingly disregarded the Alaska Constitution, created a(nother) crisis, and cost the state much-needed money in an already strapped economy.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s anti-public education, pro-private school stance and backdoor subterfuge allowing public school funds to pay for private school leading to costly Alaska Supreme Court proceedings is wholly contrived. Dunleavy knows what the Alaska Constitution says, and he — and his attorney general — knew exactly what he was doing when he allowed this to happen — and, more to the point, he knew his backdoor tactics would result in the current crisis over how public school funding should be spent. Shame on him. Dunleavy’s deliberate mal-governance is costing correspondence students unnecessary worry, the state money, and monkey wrenching constitutionally allowed functioning of publicly funded school correspondence programs. These types of undemocratic tactics are increasingly the norm for Republican administrations. Shame on them and Dunleavy. Vote.
— Wayne Jones
Palmer
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