Les, 

Since you mention added spending for school children, our current education funding would go a lot farther and be better spent IF Alaska consolidated its 50 school districts. There is no reason for Prince of Wales Island to have four school districts, each with their own expensive superintendent and human resources, finance/payroll, transportation/travel, and textbook departments. Also, there is no need for single-town/village school districts, again with all of the redundant bureaucratic spending. 

Our education budget does not need an increase when a reorganization of the state's existing school districts will solve the problem.

Barbara