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Great Alaska Schools is a grassroots, volunteer-led voice for public education in Alaska.We believe in, depend on, and fight for Alaska's public schools.We support access to quality public education for all of Alaska’s children and families through respectful, persistent, and determined collaborative advocacy.
Our schools educate Alaska’s children, keep them safe, provide pathways to opportunity, and serve and support Alaskan families, communities, and a robust Alaskan economy.
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2. Let your legislators know that education funding is still a priority for the 2026 legislative session.
In 2025’s historic override, the legislature succeeded in raising the BSA (the Base Student Allocation) in the letter of the law, BUT it amounted to an actual increase over the previous year by only $20. Even 2026’s proposed increase (via HB374) won’t even completely account for inflation.* Check out our graph below to see how the BSA has failed to match inflation over the last fifteen years. Let your legislators know how the state’s failure to adequately fund education affects YOUR family.
*Based on the inflation-adjusted value of the Alaska State BSA in 2011.
3.Check out our Resources page and the rest of our website.
We do our best to gather tips and information that can help make education advocacy more accessible to busy citizens like you. We have tips for testimony, talking points, and our best attempts to tell the complicated story of education funding in Alaska in a succinct and uncomplicated way.
“My philosophy is very simple. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just; say something! Do something! Get in trouble, good trouble, necessary trouble.”
“People who start movements do so not because they hate an institution, but because they love it too much to let it descend to its lowest form.”
- Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach (1998)