State Government

Advocates have argued that a funding increase for services for developmentally delayed infants and toddles is long overdue, and needed to help more families.

Hoffman has served in the state Capitol, representing Southwest Alaska, since 1987.

Members of the public have until July 23 to submit written comments on the proposed change to the state Board of Education.

DeVries said she believes in limited government and is a supporter of large Permanent Fund dividends in line with a decades-old formula.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy told legislative leaders Monday that he had vetoed a bipartisan bill that the heads of the state House and Senate say was necessary to address what they described as a “persistent pattern of obstruction within the senior ranks of Alaska’s Department of Revenue.”

The reduction in education funding is one of more than $100 million in budget reductions Dunleavy made using his line-item veto power.

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is set to meet this summer and fall to study and discuss ways to improve Alaska’s public schools.

The move comes amid a national crackdown on immigration by the Trump administration.

The standards recognize students can achieve literacy in state languages other than English.

Lawmakers have been trying to figure out if the state is getting the tax money it is owed. But the Dunleavy administration has refused to give legislators the same information that previous administrations gave up willingly.