Thursday Feb. 27, 2025 KUAC News stories:
1. School districts across the country received a letter from the U.S. Department of Education ordering administrators to remove any language or policies that focus on Diversity, Equity or Inclusion, also called DEI.
2. The Alaska Bureau of Investigation is looking into a fatal shooting by a North Slope Borough Police Department officer earlier this week in Utqiagvik.
3. The U.S. House passed a spending blueprint Tuesday that would extend tax cuts and like reduce Medicaid funding, the government insurance program for low-income people and others.
4. Alaska Senate leaders are reviving options for raising revenue, as the state faces an estimated half-billion-dollar budget deficit between this year and the next.
