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Financial Transparency Requirements for Union Intermediate Bodies
The following comments were submitted to Regulations.gov on February 18, 2020. The Department of Labor should subject union intermediate bodies which are composed of only public employees to the same...
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Request of Formal Investigation into “Better Elections” Ballot Initiative...
On April 15, 2020, Alaska Policy Forum sent the following letter to the Alaska Attorney General, requesting a formal investigation into the signature gathering process for ballot initiative 19AKBE, “An...
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Alaska’s Financial Transparency, Ranked
Each year, Truth in Accounting releases the Financial Transparency Score Report, which focuses on transparency in the budgets of state governments. The transparency score evaluates the comprehensive...
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Seward Payroll Analysis: Fiscal Year 2018
Upon request, the City of Seward has graciously provided data to Alaska Policy Forum regarding compensation to their public employees during the fiscal year of 2018. This payroll analysis will examine...
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Bring Police-Seized Assets into the Light
By Daryl James This op-ed was originally published by the Juneau Empire on December 16, 2020. Police call the press and circulate photos when they find big stashes of contraband. Officers in Juneau and...
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Graphs: Reality of 40% State Spending Cuts
During elections cycles and throughout special session budget planning, policymakers tout the 40% spending cuts that allegedly occurred since 2013. However, when the numbers are crunched, they tell an...
View ArticlePress Release: Alaska Policy Forum Introduces Alaska Legislative Vote Tracker
Click here for a printable PDF. For Immediate Release June 10, 2021 Contact: Cassandra Day 530 340 2185 Cassandra@AlaskaPolicyForum.org ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaska Policy Forum announced the addition of...
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Interested In Knowing How Your Legislators Voted On Their Own Pay Cut?
Alaska Policy Forum’s simple Legislative Vote Tracker tool allows you to easily see how your state representative and senator vote on bills. For example, 57 out of 60 state legislators voted in January...
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Anchorage School District Payroll Analysis, 2018–2020
This payroll analysis will examine the annual salaries, benefits, and total compensation for different groups of Anchorage School District employees in school years 2018-2019 and 2019-2020. The...
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COVID Relief Funding: Are Alaska’s School Districts Spending Responsibly?
Click here to open a printable PDF of the report in a new tab. Introduction The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development (DEED) has released several dashboards showing how COVID relief...
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Anchorage School District Reports Second-Highest Release Time Hours Nationwide
Should public school teachers be paid not to teach? School districts and other government bodies often pay employees full wages and benefits for performing union work instead of their official duties....
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Cash for Alaska’s School Districts: November Update
The state of Alaska published the Alaska K–12 Education COVID-19 Federal Relief Funding Dashboard to make transparent how much federal COVID-19 relief funding school districts received and how the...
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