Fairbanks school board president apologizes after criticizing lawmakers’ veto-override votes

Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board President Brandy Harty gives her report on March 19, 2024.

On Feb. 26, lawmakers had passed Senate Bill 140, an education bill that raised the state’s base student allocation paid to schools for each child they teach by $640, and also added money for transportation and kindergartners through third graders with reading needs. The measure would have brought more than $8 million more to the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District.

“In our Interior delegation, Representative Carrick, Representative Dibert, Senator Bishop, Senator Kawasaki, and Representative Stapp,” Harty said. “And that last name is significant. It’s someone who was willing to buck the status quo and stand up for our kids because it was the right thing to do, even with enormous pressure to do otherwise. To Will Stapp, if you’re listening, thank you.”in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner encouraging his colleagues to override the veto.

That last part may have come from Rep. Zack Fields, D-Anchorage, who made the allegation in his newsletter.

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