text: Kids being used as pawns by the educational establishment. One wonders if they're aware Alaska already spends at over twice the national average per student. But then it's pretty much understood that there could never be enough money anyway.. As evidenced by ever increasing spending over the last ten years even as enrollments were flat to declining. This time these cheap tricks won't work because there simply isn't enough money. It's not as if they're taking this money from education to fund something else. We simply don't have it. And no amount of deceitful manipulation of our young people will make it magically appear.