Education Resources: (Click on photos to view full size PDF)
Some important links useful for Alaska education reform:
October 31, 2015 Alaska Dispatch News How to close Alaska’s literacy gap with other states OPINION by Education Chair and others: The states that have significantly raised their students’ literacy rates did it with the outspoken leadership of their governors and legislatures. It's time for us to demand better in Alaska. Literate Nation’s model legislation www.literatenation.org Alaska’s “blueprint” for educational reform https://education.alaska.gov/blueprint/ North Carolina’s “Read to Achieve” http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/k-3literacy/achieve/ Florida literacy laws and state school board rules http://www.fldoe.org/academics/standards/just-read-fl/ http://www.fldoe.org/academics/standards/just-read-fl/educator-resources.stml Foundation for Excellence in Education and its efforts to reform education at the level of states http://excelined.org/ National Council on Teacher Quality and its state teacher preparedness policy yearbook for Alaska http://www.nctq.org/siteHome.do Florida legislature’s Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability and its review of “extra hour” initiative’s student performance http://www.oppaga.state.fl.us/ National Conference of State Legislatures and its education research web page http://www.ncsl.org/research/education.aspx |
CS for House Bill 197: An Act requiring the establishment of a reading program |
House Bill 36: An Act relating to PreKindergarten programs within a school district |
reportcard2013-14_alaska.pdf |
House Bill 204: An Act extending the school term |