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Governor:Sean Parnell
Commissioner of Education:Mike Hanley
Quality Counts state grade:C-
Pre-K-12 enrollment:132,104
Number of school districts:54
Number of public schools:509
Number of public school teachers:8,171
Unadjusted education spending per student:$15,829
Percent minority students:47.8%
Percent of students eligible for free/reduced price lunch:38.4%
Percent of students with disabilities:13.7%
Percent of English-language learners:11.3%
NAEP Mathematics 2011 percent proficient
4th grade math:36.6%
8th grade math:35.2%
NAEP Reading 2011 percent proficient
4th grade reading:25.6%
8th grade reading:31.0%

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Thirteen Western states that are home to more than 93 percent of the nation’s federally owned land have formed a coalition to lobby Washington for an annual $4 billion in lost local and state property-tax revenues on the federal land, nearly $1.9 billion of which would have gone to pay for public education.
December 12, 2006 - Education Week
In Toksook Bay, Alaska, help for new teachers arrives by phone, Internet, and e-mail—and occasionally, by snowmobile.
October 17, 2006 - Education Week
Though many states have debated changing the way teachers are paid, Texas is one of just three that have succeeded in linking compensation for individual teachers with student achievement.
September 6, 2006 - Education Week
In a push to provide more children with free tutoring under the No Child Left Behind Act, U.S. Department of Education officials have announced the expansion of two pilot programs that allow school districts to offer the extra assistance a year earlier than usual, and to serve as tutoring providers even if they themselves have been deemed poor performers.
July 27, 2006 - Education Week (Web)
Alaska officials are seeking their own version of the pay-for-performance models being tested or proposed in some of the Lower 48 states. The plan offers bonuses not only to teachers, but also to principals, secretaries, cooks, janitors, and other school employees.
January 23, 2006 - Education Week
Education officials in Anchorage, Alaska, have prohibited teachers from using a guide to teaching about the Arab world—the same guide that a national Jewish advocacy organization is now urging districts across the country to ban.
March 1, 2005 - Education Week
Russian is the sixth- or seventh-most-popular language taught in K-12 schools, foreign-language advocates say, with most of the courses being offered at the secondary level.
January 11, 2005 - Education Week
Alaska parents, teachers, and school advocates who say that a recent hike in education funding doesn't go nearly far enough have taken their concerns to court.
September 20, 2004 - Education Week
State education officials in Alaska fear that their taxpayer-supported system of providing long-distance education to students is being manipulated, courtesy of a legal but controversial loophole.
April 14, 2004 - Education Week
State officials have reached an agreement they say will ensure that Alyeska Central, Alaska's only fully certified correspondence school, survives in the face of recent proposals to shut it down.
December 10, 2003 - Education Week

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