As of yet, I still do not have a job for this coming school year. However, two recent items in the news have made it more likely that I will hear something positive soon. The first was a couple of weeks ago when the Borough voted in an increase to amount of funds that it provides to the school district. That allowed the district to immediately hire 12 people who had been put on standby based on the news that the Borough was thinking of flat-funding the school.
The second came today as the committee between the Alaskan House and Senate voted to keep education funding at last year's rate rather than give the $60+ million cut that the Senate had proposed. This does not mean that the budget itself has passed, simply that it is very likely that it will do so. Some schools are already talking about hiring back laid off teachers because of this news. I'm hoping that I will receive similar good news sometime soon after the budget actually crosses the governor's desk.
The second came today as the committee between the Alaskan House and Senate voted to keep education funding at last year's rate rather than give the $60+ million cut that the Senate had proposed. This does not mean that the budget itself has passed, simply that it is very likely that it will do so. Some schools are already talking about hiring back laid off teachers because of this news. I'm hoping that I will receive similar good news sometime soon after the budget actually crosses the governor's desk.
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