A bill aimed at creating a grant program for correspondence studies has moved through Senate Education Committee and will proceed to the Senate Finance Committee on Monday.
Republican Sen. Mike Dunleavy is the sponsor of Senate Bill 100 and calls for a grant program to provide materials and equipment for distance studies which would be administered by the Association of Alaska School Boards.
Sen. Dunleavy explained how the bill is constitutional to Education Committee Chairman Gary Stevens of Kodiak.
Dunleavy: “The important point is that they are being employed, the course work is being purchased for the support of a public ILP, for a public purpose and a public outcome.”
Stevens had raised concerns earlier about the bill’s constitutionality due to state oversight not being mentioned in the bill.
