Senate President Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, and Speaker of the House Cathy Tilton, R-Wasilla, speak to legislators during a break in the Tuesday, March 12, 2024, joint session of the Alaska House and Senate. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)
As the Alaska Senate prepared on Wednesday to launch a legislative blitz intended to quickly fix a looming problem with the state’s remote education programs, the Alaska House of Representatives signaled that it is so split that it may need more than a year to act on the topic.
House lawmakers spent more than three hours on Wednesday debating an informal declaration that asks Anchorage Superior Court Judge Adolf Zeman to postpone until June 30, 2025, the implementation of a court ruling that struck down two laws that govern programs used by 22,289 Alaska students …