Once again, an Anchorage legislator is blaming the State of Alaska, for the pink slips issued to 200 newly hired, untenured Anchorage school teachers by the Anchorage School District. 
Andy isn't very good at telling the whole story. Let's take a look at the UA system and ASD.
The senate budget proposes to cut funding to the UA system to address a 13% decline in admissions since 2010. Furthermore, the senate will force the UA system to eliminate redundancy between the three UA campuses. The president of the UA system said that declining enrollment is due to declining high school graduation rates. With a 13% decline in enrollment there should have been a corresponding reduction to their budget; cuts to funding the UA system is warranted.
The ASD is out of control. Months ago the ASD passed a budget that has a 12 million dollar hole in it; it was never balanced and did not fund the 200 teachers that received layoff notices; cuts are warranted.
Andy, tell Alaskans the whole story.