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The ink was hardly dry on the Juneau School District (JSD) FY 2025 budget passed last month before a local group filed petitions to recall the school board president, Deedie Sorensen, and vice president, Emil Mackey.
Juneau, Alaska (KINY) - The Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé and Thunder Mountain High School basketball teams, coaches, cheerleaders and officials will wear purple during their games tonight and Saturday night at the JDHS gym to raise awareness for mental health, suicide prevention and positive messaging for young adults and community members.
Juneau School District leaders built a budget around an assumed $430 increase to the base student allocation. Dunleavy’s veto makes the one-time boost just $340 per student. With the district’s budget due on July 15, Juneau’s school board has less than a month to decide what to cut.
Administrators said they’re disappointed and concerned by the education cut, the biggest single veto from this year’s budget.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy signed Alaska’s $6 billion state budget into law Monday after vetoing more than $200 million from the document approved in mid-May by the Alaska Legislature.