Jenna Kunze

1 week ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

The Anchorage School Board will consider revising its budget for next school year to reverse most cuts to classroom teachers and popular programs, a “cautious bet” that assumes additional state funding passed by the Alaska Legislature on Wednesday will survive. On April 30, after a decade of virtually flat funding, the Alaska Legislature passed a bipartisan education package. House Bill 57 contains a $700 boost to the Base Student Allocation, the state’s per-student funding formula.

1 week ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

At least 87 federally funded AmeriCorps volunteers were notified this week that their current or upcoming service work in Alaska was abruptly canceled. They include out-of-state volunteers set to work at Girl Scout Camps in Chugiak this summer, and local aspiring teachers planning to tutor young Alaskans. AmeriCorps is a federal agency aimed at volunteerism that operates a network of local, state and national service programs.

2 weeks ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

On April 25, what was once one of Anchorage’s largest child care facilities — Bright Beginnings Early Learning Center — permanently shuttered its last location. It’s the latest sign of a mounting child care crisis in which services have become increasingly unaffordable for providers to offer and for families to pay for, with advocates calling for greater federal or state subsidies.

2 weeks ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

Small businesses in Anchorage that source or manufacture their products from overseas, including everything from bridal gowns to cocoa beans, are feeling the pinch and uncertainty from the Trump administration’s on-again, off-again global tariffs.

2 weeks ago | adn.com | Jenna Kunze

Beginning May 7, Alaskans will need a Real ID to board a commercial airline or enter some federal facilities without an alternative, federally issued ID, according to the Transportation Security Administration. Real IDs are state-issued driver’s licenses and ID cards that meet higher federal security standards set by the Department of Homeland Security. Congress approved the identification upgrade in 2005, but the deadline for enforcing the law has been pushed back again and again.