Alaska education funding task force seeks input on plans to boost schools

After a nearly 18-month investigation, a joint legislative task force on education funding seeks not only to boost state spending on schools but to change the way Alaska allocates funding to support its troubled K-12 education system. Among the key recommendations in the draft report released Monday is the finding that annual education spending should be adjusted with inflation, and that funding for school facilities maintenance and rising energy costs should be separate from dollars intended for student instruction. The task force also recommends that the question of how much the state should spend on education should be examined by a future independent “adequacy study” to see whether Alaska delivers adequate funding to schools. The Legislature’s task force was launched in July 2025 in the wake of Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s partial veto of an increase to per-student funding, which lawmakers overrode in a special session later that summer.

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