In what country does the DOJ/FBI go after parents for voicing their concerned over their child’s education? Not a free country, and not this country.¹² Parents are the essential part of a child’s learning, children in Alaska have been time and time again, failed.

Alaskan taxpayers are hit yearly with more and more money to go to the administration costs, while students are left with a failing system. The Alaska education system has become a vacuum of taxpayer money, while many feel the focus is on political ideology rather than assuring all Alaskan children receive the best educational instruction possible. Our education system is over funded, just as our government is, just as our medical care. Money funneling to these entities that are not serving the best interest of Alaskans, especially our children.

Is it really worth so much money for incompetence? We’re at the bottom of the bowl here, yet we’re just gonna keep funneling money into the education system? I’d rather have kids enrolled to charter schools, where they actually get an education. We should not be funding incompetence, whether it’s the teacher or the administration. Our whole school board system needs to be merged. I believe we have 52 school boards. We don’t need that many. That’s ridiculous. That’s just pouring more money out for nothing.

We should consolidate those school boards, and then parents should have the choice of where to send their children, whether they choose homeschooling or charter private schools. Student money should follow the student. It shouldn’t be up to the school board where your child has to go. No, it should be up to the parent where they want to educate their child. A student’s funds should follow them wherever they are.

Our children are so vulnerable. It’s up to us as adults to guide them in the right direction. When teachers and the school administration are more worried about unicorn colored cupcakes, children’s grades suffer. I had to pull my child out of school because, in Anchor Point, they’re more worried about his gender than his grades. It seems like all these public schools want to do is manipulate our children against us. We’re setting them up for failure by allowing this to continue. Where were these kids going to end up after they graduate high school, if they make it to graduation?

Parents should get the money the school board gets to give their child a proper education. One family in Anchor Point has four younger children, the oldest isn’t even a teenager yet. Additionally, they homeschool other children in their community. She receives state funding for these other children and homeschools them in her home. I think that’s awesome. The kids are getting an excellent education so they can apply to college if they choose to or get a trade and move further in life rather than having graduated high school with a ninth-grade education that doesn’t help them in life.

It’s time to get tough, it’s time to hold them all accountable!

This is done by requiring any and all entities to adhere to a yearly Audit, consolidate school districts, create backpack funding, and hold our government accountable. cutting and trimming the fat, hold our medical facilities and staff accountable for Medicaid funding taken, they must be made to adhere to our constitutional rights, and demand transparency.

If you will vote for me, Walter Jones for Alaska State Senate District C, we will hold these entities responsible to the people! Rather than the people being controlled by an overbearing government and our states wealth stolen.

Alaska employs some 8,500 teachers, many on their Alaska Adventure.

Alaska public education has been in crisis for a long time. For the amount we have paid for teachers and administrators–since oil started going through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline in 1974–Alaska should have been able to buy the BEST EDUCATORS IN THE WORLD! Instead we have bought POOR EDUCATORS protected from being more than mediocre by the teacher union, NEA-Alaska.

Parents often love the teachers of their children, and we all admire good teachers, but let’s look at the academic outcomes we are getting in schools of our communities in this senate district, as reported by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and Alaska Department of Education and Childhood Development (AKDEED).

Assessment is a tool for measuring what students know and what they can do. Alaska’s assessment system shows how knowledgeable a student is on a particular area or subject according to Alaska’s educational standards. Assessment is part of providing an excellent education for every student every day.

Statewide assessment ensures that families, teachers, administrators, and community leaders can see how students perform across the state. The information gathered from assessments helps guide policy decisions, curriculum selection, professional learning for teachers and staff, instructional decisions, and parent support recommendations.

Alaska Department of Education and Childhood Development (AKDEED) https://education.alaska.gov/assessments

NAEP Data available is from 2019. New assessment tests will be administered in October 2022. Links are provided to see long-term trends.

Status Report: Alaska’s Academic Status

Grade 4 Mathematics was 232, lower than the national average score of 240.³ Grade 4 Reading was 204, lower than the national average score of 219.⁴ Grade 8 Mathematics score has declined from 284 in 2009 to 274 in 2019 while the national average has remained level at 281.⁵ Grade 8 Reading score was 252, a full ten points below the national average of 262.⁶

ASSESSMENT			AVERAGE SCORE		ACHIEVEMENT LEVELS
Subject	Grade	Year	Score	Difference from National public (NP)	At or above Basic	At or above Proficient	At Advanced
Mathematics (scale range 0–500)	4	2019	232	-8	73	33	5
Mathematics (scale range 0–500)	4	2017	230	-9	71	32	5
Mathematics (scale range 0–500)	4	2015	236	-4	78	35	6
Mathematics (scale range 0–500)	4	2013	236	-5	77	37	6
Mathematics (scale range 0–500)	4	2011	236	-4	78	37	6
Mathematics (scale range 0–500)	4	2009	237	-2	78	38	6
Mathematics (scale range 0–500)	4	2007	237	-2	79	38	6
Mathematics (scale range 0–500)	4	2005	236	-2	77	34	5
Mathematics (scale range 0–500)	4	2003	233	-1	75	30	4
Mathematics (scale range 0–500)	4	1996¹	224	+1	65	21	2
Reading (scale range 0–500)	4	2019	204	-15	53	25	5
Reading (scale range 0–500)	4	2017	207	-14	56	28	6
Reading (scale range 0–500)	4	2015	213	-9	61	30	6
Reading (scale range 0–500)	4	2013	209	-11	58	27	6
Reading (scale range 0–500)	4	2011	208	-12	56	26	5
Reading (scale range 0–500)	4	2009	211	-8	59	27	5
Reading (scale range 0–500)	4	2007	214	-5	62	29	6
Reading (scale range 0–500)	4	2005	211	-6	58	27	5
Reading (scale range 0–500)	4	2003	212	-5	58	28	6

Will you endorse Walter Jones?

Results of 2021 Peaks Performance Evaluation for Senate District C:

	Advanced/Proficient		Below/Far Below Proficient
Subgroup	Count	Percentage1	Count	Percentage1	Enrollment	Participation Rate
English Language Arts	389	42.47%	527	57.53%	1,195	76.49%
Mathematics	323	35.49%	587	64.51%	1,195	75.98%

	Advanced/Proficient		Below/Far Below Proficient
Subgroup	Count	Percentage1	Count	Percentage1	Enrollment	Participation Rate
English Language Arts	39	44.83%	48	55.17%	103	84.47%
Mathematics	28	32.56%	58	67.44%	103	83.50%

	Advanced/Proficient		Below/Far Below Proficient
Subgroup	Count	Percentage1	Count	Percentage1	Enrollment	Participation Rate
English Language Arts	43	48.86%	45	51.14%	118	74.58%
Mathematics	31	34.83%	58	65.17%	118	75.42%

	Advanced/Proficient		Below/Far Below Proficient
Subgroup	Count	Percentage1	Count	Percentage1	Enrollment	Participation Rate
English Language Arts	38	52.78%	34	47.22%	74	97.30%
Mathematics	29	40.28%	43	59.72%	75	97.33%

	Advanced/Proficient		Below/Far Below Proficient
Subgroup	Count	Percentage1	Count	Percentage1	Enrollment	Participation Rate
English Language Arts	32	53.33%	28	46.67%	60	98.33%
Mathematics	20	33.90%	39	66.10%	60	96.67%

	Advanced/Proficient		Below/Far Below Proficient
Subgroup	Count	Percentage1	Count	Percentage1	Enrollment	Participation Rate
English Language Arts	4	44.44%	5	55.56%	12	75.00%
Mathematics	*	25% or fewer	*	75% or more	12	75.00%

	Advanced/Proficient		Below/Far Below Proficient
Subgroup	Count	Percentage1	Count	Percentage1	Enrollment	Participation Rate
English Language Arts	14	35.90%	25	64.10%	40	97.50%
Mathematics	9	23.08%	30	76.92%	40	97.50%

	Advanced/Proficient		Below/Far Below Proficient
Subgroup	Count	Percentage1	Count	Percentage1	Enrollment	Participation Rate
English Language Arts	31	45.59%	37	54.41%	67	97.01%
Mathematics	23	33.82%	45	66.18%	67	97.01%

1. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-addresses-violent-threats-against-school-officials-and-teachers [↩]
2. https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Email-Correspondence_NSBA-Letter-to-President-Biden_Redacted.pdf [↩]
3. https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/stt2019/pdf/2020013AK4.pdf [↩]
4. https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/stt2019/pdf/2020014AK4.pdf [↩]
5. https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/stt2019/pdf/2020013AK8.pdf [↩]
6. https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/subject/publications/stt2019/pdf/2020014AK8.pdf [↩]