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.
Two days after a winter storm shut down classes as several schools on the southern Kenai Peninsula and delayed them for even more in the Seward area, a handful of schools will start with a two-hour delay again on Thursday.
Due to a $17 million shortfall, the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District has begun discussing potentially closing and/or consolidating certain schools in the borough.
Now that the vaccine is available to younger students, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District will no longer identify large groups of close contacts in elementary schools beginning early next year.
Disagreements over the funding of School Resource Officers, swimming pools and early childhood education were the impetus for a meeting between the Anchorage School Board and the Anchorage Assembly on Friday.
The negotiations between Anchorage educators and the Anchorage School District have reached a deadlock and is headed for a federal mediator in December.
Following hours of public testimony and deliberation, the Anchorage School Board approved a $111 million bond package for the 2022 municipal election for critical school infrastructure improvements.
Dozens of members of the Anchorage community showed up to testify at Tuesday night’s school board meeting, which began with a focus on college life and career readiness.
Anchorage School District Superintendent Deena Bishop sent out an email to families Monday evening announcing her decision to remove a graphic novel memoir about a nonbinary teenager from circulation in the district.
According to a letter from Matanuska-Susitna Borough school district's superintendent, the district says that approximately 20% of their student body is absent every day.
University of Alaska Interim President Pat Pitney announced Tuesday that the university will implement a vaccine requirement for staff who work at University of Alaska Fairbanks research sites or are funded by federal contracts.
The Anchorage School District will offer COVID-19 vaccination clinics for children starting Wednesday, in anticipation of the CDC authorizing them for children age 5-11 this week.
A labor shortage across the country is forcing some businesses to close for several days of the week, or even altogether, but a program at the University of Alaska Anchorage aims to get people back on the job — and fast.
Masks or no masks, Fairbanks schools current masking policy still leaves the decision up to the discretion of students and parents -- but there's a chance that won't be the case for long.
Parents, students and community members testified on both sides of the mask wearing debate at Wednesday's meeting of the Mat-Su School Board. Masks there are largely recommended, but can be required when schools move into medium risk.
