{"id":95218,"date":"2023-02-07T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-what-kind-of-schools-do-our-children-deserve\/"},"modified":"2023-02-07T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T07:30:00","slug":"opinion-what-kind-of-schools-do-our-children-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-what-kind-of-schools-do-our-children-deserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: What kind of schools do our children deserve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I applaud the Alaska Senate for making the first move to fix Alaska&rsquo;s education crisis. Senate Bill 52 would raise the Base Student Allocation from $5,960 per student to $6,960.<\/p>\n<p>While this increase is still less than inflation over the last 14 years, it is a good faith effort to address our failing schools. We now look to the governor and the House to support this or offer an even more substantial increase.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska Constitution, Article 7, Sec. 1, states: &ldquo;The legislature shall&#8230;maintain..public schools.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The question is, what kind of schools do Alaskan children deserve?<\/p>\n<p>That question can only be answered by the Governor and Legislature who are ultimately accountable.<\/p>\n<p><em>Michael Bucy, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Juneau<\/em><\/p>\n<p><ins><em>Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire. Have something to say?<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/have-something-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Here&rsquo;s how to submit a My Turn or letter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I applaud the Alaska Senate for making the first move to fix Alaska&rsquo;s education crisis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":95219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-95218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95218"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=95218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}