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    "body_md": "The Anchorage School Board voted Tuesday night to restore roughly sixty teaching positions, using about eleven and a half million dollars in one-time funding sent by the Alaska Legislature. The move comes after a budget crisis in February, when the board faced a ninety million dollar shortfall and cut more than three hundred teaching jobs.\n\nMost of the restored positions are classroom teachers, aimed at easing overcrowding at every grade level across the district. The board also funded five additional school nurses, kept the district's riflery program, and preserved its contract with the Dome.\n\nThe district is piloting a new reading and writing curriculum for grades six through ten rather than purchasing it outright, a decision that freed up additional money to fund more teaching positions.\n\nMore state money could still be coming. If oil prices remain high enough, Anchorage could receive another thirty-two million dollars from the state, with that determination expected at the end of August.",
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