At Tuesday night’s Anchorage School Board meeting, outgoing superintendent Dr. Jharrett Bryantt addressed attendees directly for the first time since the announcement of his impending departure.
One of the many issues before the next governor of Alaska will be the growing gap between available providers and the demand for childcare, which some advocates are calling a “childcare crisis."
The University of Alaska Fairbanks has received a $300,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to help develop exhibits around the historic Bus 142.
After dozens of school bus routes went missed over the first three weeks of the new year, Matanuska-Susitna district officials say they are resorting to using every penalty available to them against the bus company.
UAF has received $325,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to come up with models and programs that use AI to improve electric systems in communities across rural and coastal Alaska.
As students across Alaska return to the classroom, law enforcement officials are warning families of a sharp rise in online safety threats, specifically targeting young people with financial sextortion and disrupting schools with viral hoax threats.
The unions representing teachers and staff in the district have not yet finished negotiating with district administration, leaving employees to start the year without a new contract.
Nearly 43% of Alaska students were considered chronically absent in the 2023-24 school year, but one Anchorage high school has spent three years quietly reversing that trend.
With the school year approaching, Anchorage School District bus drivers are already hitting the roads — running practice routes and refreshing their skills before students climb aboard.
The U.S. Department of Education is expected to award $41.3 million in grant funding through the Alaska Native Education Program to 26 Alaska grantees after some delay, according to an announcement from Alaska Republican U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
The Anchorage School District began planning for the upcoming school year in January, and visitors to some campuses this fall will notice changes at the front door.
Six candidates for Alaska governor from across the political spectrum appeared side-by-side in a room full of superintendents and school officials in Juneau and promised that boosting education funding would be a priority of their administration, if elected
A three-day summit for Alaska students in grades 6 through 12 wrapped up this week at Central Middle School, covering topics including identity, addiction, suicide prevention and team-building activities.
The Fairbanks North Star Borough assembly and school district met on Thursday to discuss the borough’s current policy for how much the district is allowed to save in its fund balances.
Children took part in the Junior Ranger Wildland Fire Program at the Bureau of Land Management’s Campbell Creek Science Center on Friday, July 10, where they learned skills used by wildland firefighters.
Measurements taken from an earthquake in the Alaskan Interior on August 20 of last year may provide insight into how a seismic event develops and lead to better warning systems.
The Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly will consider letting the borough administration lease the former Pearl Creek Elementary School to the proposed Pearl Creek STEAM charter school.
On Wednesday, the Dept. of Education and Early Development sent a letter to the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District that said if they do not open Pearl Creek Charter School, “state funds may not be paid.”
Alaska dropped seven places to rank 47th in the nation in overall child well-being, according to a nationally recognized survey by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Advocates say the decline is troubling and reflects years of declining investment in Alaska children and families.
The next chancellor of the University of Alaska Fairbanks will be Colonel Russell “Russ” Vander Lugt, the current Commander of the 11th Airborne Division’s Arctic Aviation Command at Fort Wainwright.
