'I think we’re all going to Juneau hoping that we can kind of pull a rabbit out of the hat and put a larger group together, and as I say, put a lot of political swords aside,' Edgmon said. 'But again, all that remains to be seen.”
: Thank you. My pleasure to be here.So the last time we talked was right before the midterm elections in November. Since then a lot has changed. What does the makeup of the legislature look like now?Yeah, first off, time goes by so fast, isn’t it? So here we are basically, about a week out before the 33rd Legislature convenes. The first day is January 17.
You know, it’s going to be one of those sessions [where] we just don’t quite yet know how it’s gonna turn out.: Thinking about education funding, I’ve talked with teachers across the region who have mentioned the pre-2006 retirement plan versus the current retirement plan and how in order to recruit teachers to work in this area, you need to have some incentives to get that started.
There’s one faction of the Legislature that will say that the increase for schools is long overdue. We’ve dilly-dallied long enough. But there’s also gonna be another sort of core group of legislators are going to say, ‘Yeah, but what about performance metrics? And are the schools achieving what they’re supposed to,’ because Alaska ranks 49 or 50 in whatever category it might be.
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