{"id":5219,"date":"2019-03-04T11:54:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2019-03-04T11:54:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T20:54:39","slug":"funding-k-12-public-education-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2019\/03\/04\/funding-k-12-public-education-march-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Funding K-12 Public Education &#124; March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0 March, you have several opportunities to become informed, and advocate for K-12 education funding. Events are happening at local schools, in communities, with the school district, the borough assembly, at town halls, and with hearings of bills in Juneau.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2019\/03\/2019-March-Budget-opportunities-for-public.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5224\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2019\/03\/2019-March-Budget-opportunities-for-public-1024x512.png\" alt=\"2019 March Budget opportunities for public\" width=\"517\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Monday, March 4, 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Board of Education Finance Committee meeting:\u00a0<\/b><i>2:00 p.m., Redoubt conference room, school district offices<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Monthly school board meeting:\u00a0<\/b><em>6:00 p.m. Assembly Chambers<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Tuesday, March 5, 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Board of Education worksession: FY20 Budget, <\/b><em>10:30 a.m., Soldotna Prep School Professional Development Room<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Joint Board of Education and Borough Assembly worksession:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0<i>2:00 p.m., Borough Assembly Chambers<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b>Borough Assembly meeting: <\/b><em>6:00 p.m., Borough Assembly Chambers<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>One minute public <\/b><b>testimony<\/b><b> to Senate State Affairs: 6:00 p.m.<\/b><b>*<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Thursday, March 7, 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>One minute public\u00a0<\/b><b>testimony<\/b><b>\u00a0to Senate State Affairs: 6:00 p.m.<\/b><b>*<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>Thursday, March 21, 2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Board of Education Special Meeting: FY20 Budget:\u00a0<\/b><i>6:00 p.m., Borough Assembly Chambers, public testimony invited<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>*Public opportunity to testify to the Senate State Affairs committee<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tuesday, March 5, 2019, starting at 6:00 PM<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday, March 7, 2019, starting at 6:00 PM<br \/>\n<\/strong>about SB24 and SB23, both related to the PFD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong>To balance the FY20 state budget, the Governor has proposed the State of Alaska cut $20.9 million in funding to Kenai Peninsula Borough School District schools.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Public testimony limited to one minute:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. In person: at the Capitol, 2nd Floor, Butrovich Room<br \/>\n2. Legislative Information Offices: Anchorage, Eagle River, Wasilla, Fairbanks, Kenai<br \/>\n3. Call in: you may call in starting at 5:30 PM to get in the \u201cqueue\u201d<br \/>\nFrom Juneau: 586-9085<br \/>\nFrom Anchorage: 563-9085<br \/>\nFrom all other locations: 844-856-9085<br \/>\nmore info., and link to listen online:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/w3.legis.state.ak.us\/?fbclid=IwAR0fN_touZoLtdDaSAL_4kgLytSlYw1IkNWdmt4VlRaI9rEKMl3cuK8IXJw\">http:\/\/w3.legis.state.ak.us\/<\/a><br \/>\nLINKS<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2019\/02\/2019-How-to-contact-your-state-legislator.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5198\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2019\/02\/2019-How-to-contact-your-state-legislator-1024x512.png\" alt=\"2019 How to contact your state legislator\" width=\"517\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2019\/02\/2019_02_18_State-Reductions-and-proposed-FF-cuts-FY20-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5190\" src=\"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/files\/2019\/02\/2019_02_18_State-Reductions-and-proposed-FF-cuts-FY20-1-669x1024.png\" alt=\"2019_02_18_State Reductions and proposed FF cuts FY20\" width=\"517\" height=\"791\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0 March, you have several opportunities to become informed, and advocate for K-12 education funding. Events are happening at local schools, in communities, with the school district, the borough assembly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2019\/03\/04\/funding-k-12-public-education-march-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Funding K-12 Public Education &#124; March 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[198,199,638],"class_list":["post-5219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-budget","tag-budget-development","tag-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}