Beth Kemp: Vote Yes for Smaller Classes

0:00Beth Kemp taught kindergarten and first grade in Anchorage for 13 years before leaving the classroom in 2022. As a tier 3 teacher, she had no pension waiting and that's pushing experience educators out of Alaska schools every year. Now she's pushing for Proposition 9, which would bring in $11.8 million to protect about 90 teaching jobs. She's still subbing and volunteering at local schools, seeing teachers and staff hustle daily with bigger classes and fewer resources. Kids are thriving in art, music, languages, and deep discussions, but the workload is grinding them down without enough support. The real impact hits the students. Imagine a kindergartener or first grader in a class jumping from 21 kids to 28. That's the line between real teaching and just crowd control where teachers lose time to connect and build skills. Student 9 teams up with Prop 1 to staff schools properly and boost safety, giving educators the smaller classes they need to shape Alaska's.

1:01Future Right Backers like Beth say it's time to vote yes and keep that momentum going for our kids. This has been Anchorage News Today, powered by AI. I'm Cory with the Story.