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  • House budget would send extra $263,000 to Petersburg School District

    Larry Persily and Chris Basinger, Wrangell Sentinel writer and Pilot writer|Apr 21, 2022

    The state budget plan adopted by the House earlier this month includes an additional $263,000 in one-time funding for the Petersburg School District, an almost 5% boost from a state aid formula that has not increased since 2017. The one-time appropriation for a total of $57 million may be the political compromise to help Alaska's 54 school districts this next year as lawmakers continue to debate a change to the formula in state statute. Superintendent Erica Kludt-Painter discussed House Bill...