Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor has recused himself as the Alaska Department of Law looks into the legality of using public funds for private education through the state’s correspondence school, or homeschool, allotment program.
in mid-May about her plan to seek up to $8,000 in reimbursement from public funding for their two kids attending an Anchorage private school. Deputy Attorney General Cori Mills said that prompted a discussion between her and Attorney General Taylor on May 20.
“His wife submitted an op-ed on the issue of correspondence school allotments and, in that, it became clear that there was an intent to seek this reimbursement of correspondence school allotments for her children, which means also the attorney general’s children. And so, for that reason, the attorney general felt like it was best to recuse himself,” Mills said on the phone Monday.
. That became public on Monday in a press release from the Department of Law. Taylor said in the release, “I want to ensure that there is no perception of bias in relation to the objective advice provided by the Department of Law on this issue of correspondence school allotments used to fund courses or tuition at a private school.”
Mills cited the Department of Law’s attorney-client relationship with the Department of Education and Early Development in saying that she wasn’t able to give any more details of the review, nor a timeline of when an opinion could come out. She said it would be up to the Department of Education to provide any clarification to school districts.
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