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Anchorage School Board to consider new budget that restores teacher positions and program cuts
An education funding bill passed by the legislature on Wednesday is giving new hope that deep cuts in the Anchorage School ...
Anchorage's trash cleanup season is here. Here's how you can help.
After a relatively gentle spring breakup, Anchorage's ditches, medians, trails, parks and waterways are once again littered with a winter's worth of trash. Now it's time to tidy up. The biggest effort ...
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Career academy courses available to Anchorage students next school year
School Board members plan to review the academies master plan, make revisions after the first year of implementation.
Alaska education commissioner urges superintendents to back Gov. Dunleavy's school policies or risk funding veto
Alaska Education Commissioner Deena Bishop on Monday sent a letter to school superintendents, urging them to advocate for Gov. Mike Dunleavy's education priorities or risk seeing school funding vetoed ...
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Schools push career ed classes ‘for all,’ even kids heading to college
Backers say the academy model engages students and prepares them for the future, but others worry it comes at a cost.
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Another child care facility closes in Anchorage in sign of industry’s challenges
After 30 years in business, what was once one of the largest child care facilities in Anchorage shuttered its final location ...
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Anchorage School district officials say window for reversing teacher layoffs is closing
The Anchorage School Board cut $43 million from the district budget in February, and also passed an amendment that detailed how a $1,000 increase to the state’s per-student funding formula would be ...
East Anchorage choir teacher retiring, leaving future of program uncertain amid budget deficit
A choir teacher at Bettye Davis East Anchorage High School is retiring at the end of this school year, leaving the future of ...
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Uncertainty in education funding means less art, music and gym for Anchorage elementary students next year
The Anchorage School District is preparing its staff for reductions in elementary-level art, music and physical education next year if more school funding doesn’t come from Juneau this ...
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Anchorage School District students raise concerns over BSA funding
Students all over the Anchorage School District were chanting and sign-waving to make their voices heard over the lack of Base Student Allocation funding. At East High School, students lined the ...
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OPINION: All of Alaska shouldn’t pay for Anchorage School District’s mismanagement
The Anchorage School District (ASD) is in financial trouble, and instead of taking responsibility, they’re demanding the rest of Alaska pay for it. ASD has failed to adjust to declining enrollment, ...
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Why the rest of Alaska shouldn’t pay for Anchorage School District’s mismanagement
The Anchorage School District (ASD) is in financial trouble, and instead of taking responsibility, they’re demanding the rest of Alaska pay for it. ASD has failed to adjust to declining ...