Half favor a per-student increase of $680 or more, the same amount the House and Senate passed in recent weeks.
A sign worn by a protestor at the Alaska State Capitol on Jan. 29, 2024 calls for an increase in education funding.
The poll drills deeper to look at how much of an increase Alaskans support. Half favor a per-student increase of $680 or more, the same amount the House and Senate“$680 is a popular amount, although many people wanted more,” said Jason Katz-Brown, a senior advisor with Data for Progress based in Anchorage who worked on the poll. “We see consistently in our results that in the Mat-Su is the only constituency that wants a smaller increase than that.
Though Data for Progress often works with candidates or campaigns, Katz-Brown said this survey was not done on behalf of a client. The survey touched on other issues in front of the Alaska Legislature. Katz-Brown says two-thirds of respondents support a House-passed bill that would“Overall, I really thought the Alaska Legislature’s bipartisan, like, consensus-building nature shone through in these results,” Katz-Brown said.
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