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Closing the Education Achievement Gap

“Closing the Education Achievement Gap”  Dr. Ben Chavis, founder of the American Indian Model (AIM) Charter School in Oakland, California will present on the topic of motivating students, especially minority and lower income students, to achieve their maximum potential. His AIM middle school...

December 14th, 2011 | Education, Featured | Read More

Anchorage School District Report Card Map

Earlier in November, the Alaska Policy Forum released a report card for the schools in the Anchorage School District. With that report card as a starting point, the Forum created a more improved rating system, and integrated it into a clickable map for easier navigation. If you have questions or comments about...

November 29th, 2011 | Education, Featured, Recent News | Read More

Everyday Math Explained

June 29th, 2011 | Featured | Read More

Mat-Su Payroll Portal Launched

Anchorage, Alaska – Continuing with its efforts to advance government transparency, the Alaska Policy Forum has launched a new portal which allows citizens in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough to view the salaries of its public employees. Like the previously launched website, the data can be navigated...

March 8th, 2011 | Featured, Fiscal Policy, Recent News, Transparency | Read More

Payroll Database for Anchorage Now Online

The Alaska Policy Forum has launched a transparency website for the Municipality of Anchorage payroll. The website allows citizens to view payroll and benefit data for nearly all Municipal employees by navigating an organizational chart. The data provided lists the employee, the position title, bargaining...

February 21st, 2011 | Featured, Fiscal Policy, Recent News, Transparency | Read More

Plan to see The Cartel on Jan. 28 in Anchorage

Event is free and open to the public. The director of the film, Bob Bowdon, will be present for a Q&A following the film. Click here to download a flyer for the event. Visit the documentary website at www.thecartelmovie.com.

January 12th, 2011 | Education, Featured | Read More

Health Care Reform Legislation Timeline

As part of the effort to better understand the bill, the Alaska Policy Forum has compiled from several sources a timeline that outlines the major provisions of the legislation’s implementation. Click here to view the timeline (javascript required). There are two bills that make up President Obama’s...

July 9th, 2010 | Featured | Read More

Transparency yields government accountability

While true transparency is more than just making information available on the internet, websites are a good first step. The Alaska Policy Forum is attempting to fill the need for transparency by making available to the public information about contracts and public bargaining agreements with schools,...

June 30th, 2010 | Featured | Read More

Former Crime Lab Director Criticizes New Proposal

Former crime lab director, George Taft, criticizes proposed crime lab and recommends Alaska Policy Forum report.  April 5, 2010 Anchorage, Alaska – Another former director of the Alaska State Crime Lab has expressed his opposition to the crime lab replacement project as it has been currently proposed...

April 22nd, 2010 | Accountability, Featured | Read More

Better Education Value for Anchorage

Download a hardcopyhere (PDF). Recently, the Anchorage School District (ASD) requested community input to assist the District and the School Board in managing their budget. The question under consideration was how to close an anticipated budget gap for FY 2011. We at the Alaska Policy Forum attended...

April 22nd, 2010 | Education, Featured | Read More

The best form of transparency

For some, the word “transparency” may seem like a political football. While there exist those who do use it as such, there is a larger worldwide effort to change the perception about government data and its usefulness to the public. Can more disclosure of government data be useful to Alaskans? Alaska...

April 20th, 2010 | Accountability, Featured | Read More

Let the Climategate Hearings Begin

By Kenneth Green Climate skeptics are having a field day, celebrating the firestorm of controversy surrounding the UK’s Hadley Center Climate Research Unit (CRU), until recently, the world’s leading climate research center. One skeptic, a Canadian named Steve McIntyre has particular cause for doing...

April 20th, 2010 | Featured, Recent News | Read More

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