The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will again consider their budget at tonight’s School Board meeting.
Board President Joe Arness said the Legislature is getting closer to finalizing a spending plan…
Arness: “The worst scenario for us is the Senate Finance Committee version, and I guess the Senate passed it. The hope is that it will get improved from there somehow in the conversation between the House and the Governor.”
A conference committee is currently working out state education funding.
Also tonight, the Board will revisit the controversy surrounding an 8th Grade U.S. History textbook…
Arness: “The determination was made to keep the textbook, but to look into replacing it whenever we could. What came out of it was that some of the books that we had out of that series were books that we weren’t supposed to have. They had a section in them that we didn’t want and we went back to the publisher and asked them to replace those and they said, ‘Well, we don’t have enough of those to replace them, but what we do have is the new version coming out this spring and we’ll give you an entire new set of these for free.’ And it’s actually a much less objectionable book. It doesn’t have nearly the political overtones in it.”
The incorrect texts were intended for students in Texas and included a “politicized” epilogue and prologue.
Tonight’s meeting will be start at 6pm in Seward.
