Good policies are in the eye of the beholder. In Dunleavy’s eye, anything that helps push public dollars toward home schools and charter schools—and away from neighborhood schools—is good policy.
Dunleavy wants to give more power to his appointees on the state school board to create charter schools, bypassing local school boards. Local governments and the University of Alaska—controlled by regents appointed by Dunleavy—would also be able to create charter schools.
He also wants to give cash incentives to teachers for three years, an approach that would do nothing to keep teachers more than three years.
He does not support any permanent increase in the base student allocation, the major means of support for public education. Dunleavy wants to direct funding into the things he likes—charter schools, correspondence, home schools, etc.
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