
Matt Acuña Buxton
Matt is a longtime journalist and longtime nerd for Alaska politics and policy. Alaska became his home in 2011, and he's covered the Legislature and more in newspapers, live threads and blogs.
- Anchorage, Alaska
- 493 Posts
AKLEG Day 94: Education dividend
In the wake of the home school ruling, Dunleavy sees an opportunity to break down the constitutional barrier that has stopped him from implementing school vouchers.

AKLEG Day 92: 'Direct benefit'
Republicans have bristled at attempts to increase oversight on public home school allotment spending. Now we know why.

AKLEG Day 85: ‘What’s not in the budget?’
The central question moving forward is just how much room there really is in the budget.

AKLEG Day 84: 'The absence of a compelling reason.'
A long litany of unanswered questions hasn’t stopped Gov. Mike Dunleavy and his Republicans from pushing to enact right-wing changes to education policy in Alaska, and that didn’t change on Monday.

AKLEG Day 67: 'Establish and maintain'
Former Gov. Bill Walker broke the norms of the PFD law. Now, Dunleavy is effectively doing the same with the BSA.

AKLEG Day 65: 'Significant consequences'
As “adults play their political games” in Juneau, districts face tremendous, community-dividing uncertainty as they turn to cuts.

AKLEG Day 63: 39-20
While Republicans claimed there's still time to fund schools, the future is far from certain.
