00                CS FOR SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 6(FIN)                                                               
01 Urging the Congress of the United States to provide federal education funds as a block                                  
02 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 funding to meet the                                 
06 education needs in the State of Alaska than is the federal government; and                                              
07       WHEREAS the use of a block grant system is a method that maximizes control by the                               
08 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 the United States Congress is considering legislation that would revise                                 
12 federal education funding to the states;                                                                                
13       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature urges the United States                                        
14 Congress to adopt a block grant system for distributing education funding to the states that                            
15 allows the states maximum flexibility in the use of education funds.                                                    
16       COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable George W. Bush, President                              

01 of the United States; the Honorable Rod Paige, United States Secretary of Education; and to                           
02 the Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable Frank Murkowski, U.S. Senators, and the                                     
03 Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of the Alaska delegation in Congress.