Sen. Löki Gale Tobin and Mike Mason preview the upcoming veto override session for SB 140 and they talk about the crisis in public education with two classroom teachers from Fairbanks and Anchorage.
Danette Peterson is a high school teacher and the President of the Fairbanks Education Association, which represents the certified staff in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District.
Corey Aist is a teacher at the Polaris School in Anchorage. He is also the President of the Anchorage Education Association, which represents around 3,000 educators in the Anchorage School District.
The interview was recorded on February 14 shortly after Danette Peterson and Corey Aist testified to the Senate Education Committee on the "State of Teaching" in Alaska. You can watch their testimony on Gavel Alaska.
Danette Peterson, FEA
https://www.ktoo.org/gavel/video/?clientID=2147483647&eventID=2024021165&startStreamAt=3440
Corey Aist, AEA
https://www.ktoo.org/gavel/video/?clientID=2147483647&eventID=2024021165&startStreamAt=4762
