00 CS FOR SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 11(FIN)                                                                            
01 Urging the Congress of the United States to provide federal education funds as                                          
02 a block grant to the state.                                                                                             
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                              
04  WHEREAS the federal government provides funding for education to the states; and                                     
05  WHEREAS the State of Alaska is a better judge of how to use federal funding to meet                                  
06 the education needs in the State of Alaska; and                                                                         
07  WHEREAS the use of a block grant system is a method that maximizes control by                                        
08 the states and local communities; and                                                                                   
09  WHEREAS the block grant system has proven successful in other areas such as                                          
10 welfare funding; and                                                                                                    
11  WHEREAS, in the 106th Congress, the United States House of Representatives is                                        
12 considering H.R. 2 and the United States Senate is considering S. 280, which would revise                               
13 federal education funding to the states;                                                                                
14  BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges the United States Congress                                    
01 to adopt a block grant system for distributing education funding to the states that allows the                          
02 states maximum flexibility in the use of education funds.                                                               
03  COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Richard W. Riley, Secretary                                 
04 of the U.S. Department of Education; and to the Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable                                 
05 Frank Murkowski, U.S. Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative,                                       
06 members of the Alaska delegation in Congress.