Later this week, a fundraiser to help raise money for the construction of a new building for the Alaska Native Cultural Charter School is taking place.
The Alaska Association of Secondary School Principals recently announced Colony Middle School's Mary Fulp as the Alaska Principal of the Year for 2022, citing her statewide leadership and her advocation of students, education, as well as other principals.
An updated administrative regulation from the Anchorage School District will more broadly allow students to wear cultural and traditional regalia during graduation.
Throughout the pandemic, many college students never got to walk during graduation ceremonies. The University of Alaska Anchorage is going to give students a chance to re-capture that missed experience.
The Anchorage School District is expected to make a hire for the superintendent position within the next 10 days, according to Tuesday's virtual town hall meeting.
The Anchorage School District has three finalists to fill the district’s top job, after Superintendent Deena Bishop announced she will retire at the end of this school year.
As legal marijuana becomes more mainstream, the conversations about how to talk to children about pot have been evolving in Alaska. Experts say parents should be upfront with their children about the impacts of marijuana — especially on young, still developing brains.
A new policy passed by the Anchorage School Board will make student community workforce agreements a requirement for Anchorage School District construction projects that cost over $1 million.
Recently-named University of Alaska President Pat Pitney delivered her State of the University address to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce luncheon on Thursday.
Officials from a southeast Alaska school district say a pep club’s “country” theme for a basketball game against a school from Alaska’s only Indian reserve had a negative effect that was predictable and should have been prevented.
Pat Pitney has been named the president of the University of Alaska, dropping interim from her title. Pitney has served as the interim president since August 2020.
The Anchorage School Board said that the Anchorage School District will be paying for part of its School Resource Officer program for the first time in several years. The funding was included in the district's fiscal year 2023 budget which the board passed this week.
All Anchorage schools and all but one Mat-Su school is closed Tuesday, and several schools on the Kenai Peninsula will operate on a delayed, two-hour start Tuesday.
Anchorage School District Superintendent Deena Bishop announced that the school district will transition away from requiring masking, making it optional for students and staff later this month.
An Anchorage Superior Court judge has sided with the state in a lawsuit brought by four college students who argued it was unconstitutional to drain the state’s scholarship fund.
All schools except one in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District will be closed Thursday, due to continued icy roads after another winter storm swept through the area this week.
At the February 1st regular meeting, the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board passed a motion that will bring changes to the district starting with the 2022-2023 school year.
In a letter to Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District parents, Superintendent Dr. Randy Trani said that masks would no longer be required in schools that are in a yellow, medium risk operational zone.
The Anchorage School District and Anchorage Education Association have tentatively agreed to three-year contract, pending approval by the teachers union and school board.
The Anchorage School District has extended its requirement that masks be worn by staff and students, as the omicron variant continues to spread and is causing COVID-19 cases within the district to rise.
Schools in Juneau were closed for the third day in a row and the roofs of two commercial buildings in Alaska’s capitol collapsed Tuesday under the weight of continued heavy snow that’s falling on the region.
All schools in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District will be open again on Monday, following several days of closures due to a dayslong windstorm that wreaked havoc on the area beginning over the New Year’s Day weekend.
In response to updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Anchorage School District has reduced its own requirement for isolation following a positive COVID-19 case for students and staff.
The Anchorage School District may suspend classes for an undetermined amount of time this spring if staffing levels fall below manageable levels, according to a letter sent out to families Tuesday.
Members of the Anchorage School Board voted on Monday night to reverse Superintendent Deena Bishop’s move to make masking optional in Anchorage schools, and keep the current mask policy in place until at least Jan. 15.
Continued winter weather and hazardous road conditions have prompted another round of delayed starts for some schools on the southern and eastern Kenai Peninsula.
