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High schoolers from Ketchikan to Utqiagvik walked out of class on Thursday morning to protest Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a wide-ranging education bill that included an historic increase to education funding.
Their midday walkout was a cry for increased state education funding.
Students at Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé gathered outside and began to chant “Fund our future! Fund our future!” Then, with a roar of approval, they decided to walk to the Capitol building.
Dunleavy has said he would not support changing the school funding formula if other of his education policy priorities are not adopted. In news conferences he has said that education “special interests’’ are behind the calls for increased school funding, but protesting students said it’s their experience — and future — at stake.