The 2022 session of the Alaska State Legislature has ended, and in the final days of the session, the Alaska Reads Act was approved by both the House and the Senate.
The legislation also increases the amount of money schools receive per enrolled student by $30.
According to a press release from the Senate Minority, the act also includes universal, voluntary pre-Kindergarten education and a Reading Intervention Program.“We are roughly, by some estimates, 49th in the nation in reading. 49th in the nation. That’s not okay. There’s no way that you can spin that. That’s not alright. That’s not okay. That’s not acceptable,” Dunleavy said. “Mississippi and Florida went through the same thing.
District 4 representative Grier Hopkins voted against the concurrence. He says this vote came partly because the house didn’t have an opportunity to make needed amendments to the bill. “There was a lot of things that needed to be strengthened for our students, supports for our students and our educators to make sure that they were going to be able to read by nine and learn those tools, and I didn’t feel that the package that the Senate sent us gave us those schools,” Hopkins said. “It stripped them of the resources that they needed and it stripped school districts of the ability to support the kids by just not giving them the funding to go along with the mandate.
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