The Alaska Senate Education Committee replaced a school funding bill introduced in March with a new version that removes a controversial overhaul of publicly funded homeschooling programs. The new version would require more legislative oversight over Alaska’s correspondence education programs and removes additional correspondence funding in favor of broader one-time education funding measures. It also includes a $58 million one-year school energy relief payment to offset high fuel prices and a bump to student transportation funding. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Löki Tobin, an Anchorage Democrat, who said removing the most controversial parts of the bill would make it more straightforward. The revised version requires that Alaska school districts provide an annual report to the Legislature on the correspondence programs.