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  • Alaska Senate votes to require public schools to teach CPR

    James Brooks, Alaska Beacon|Mar 1, 2026

    Alaska public school students would be required to learn hands-only CPR under a proposal advancing through the state legislature. In a 19-0 vote in mid-February, the Alaska Senate approved Senate Bill 20, which requires the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development to "adopt curricula to instruct public school students on hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation." Conventional CPR involves chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breathing, whereas hands-only CPR uses compressions...