Alex Sakariassen
Writer at Freelance
Reporter at Montana Free Press
Journalist with a taste for snow, trout and Montana's wilder places. Now covering education and politics for Montana Free Press. Opinions are my own.
Articles
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1 week ago |
montanafreepress.org | JoVonne Wagner |Katie Fairbanks |Alex Sakariassen
Voters in five of Montana’s largest public school districts on Tuesday delivered several key successes in local efforts to increase the amount of money flowing to classrooms via local levies. Yet in some communities, requests to bolster funding for school security and help hold the line on general fund budgets hit hard by inflation, fluctuating enrollment and the expiration of pandemic-era federal aid fell flat.
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1 week ago |
nbcmontana.com | JoVonne Wagner |Katie Fairbanks |Alex Sakariassen
According to initial election results from around the state, school districts in Missoula, Bozeman, Helena and Kalispell all won voter approval for modest to sizable increases to their schools’ general operating funds. But in Belgrade, similar bids for additional support at the elementary and high school levels failed, as did the Helena schools’ requested increases for technology funding.
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2 weeks ago |
montanafreepress.org | Alex Sakariassen
U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen on Tuesday extended a restraining order barring the federal government from taking action against two international students currently enrolled at Montana State University — the latest development in a high-profile case tied to the Trump administration’s handling of foreign student visas.
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2 weeks ago |
milescitystar.com | Alex Sakariassen
In a response entered April 21 with the U.S. District Court in Butte, federal attorneys challenged the ACLU of Montana’s assertion that neither student has faced a criminal conviction in this country. Though the ACLU has endeavored to protect the identities of the plaintiffs, identifying them only as John Roe and Jane Doe, the government’s filing stated that a check of their information against criminal records allegedly revealed both had been arrested previously in Bozeman.
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2 weeks ago |
montanafreepress.org | Alex Sakariassen
The federal government responded this week to an ACLU lawsuit defending two international students at Montana State University whose visas were recently terminated by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, filing a legal motion that provided the government’s first clear explanation of its actions.
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