Education

The district has stayed largely silent on why Wardlaw was placed on administrative leave on April 12, only stating that ASD was conducting an investigation into “community concerns” surrounding the Service principal.

All Anchorage Schools will start an hour later on Mondays beginning in August.

The recommendations from the ASD administration were based on national studies that show positive impacts when adjusting school start times.

The rally is the result of the school district and its employees not being able to reach an agreement on employee contracts.

The proposed bylaw change would have prevented transgender girls from competing on cisgender girls’ sports teams, but a vote is being passed on for now.

The Anchorage School District says five students overdosed on fentanyl during school hours, but off school grounds.

Monday night, the Anchorage School Board voted 6-1 to eliminate Family Partnership’s homeschool charter and their Academic Policy Committee.

The Senate majority addressed the state of legislation that will impact the budgeting process.

Anchorage public middle and high schools could have later start times for students with earlier start times for elementary schools. There are pros and cons to this.

The Anchorage School District wants to terminate a home school charter that's been operational for more than 25 years, but many don't like that.

If the resolution is adopted, transgender girls would not be able to compete against girls who are assigned female at birth.

A protest was held against the recent bill proposed by Gov. Dunleavy that would require parental permission before their children can change their pronouns.

In a meeting on Thursday, the Alaska State Board of Education and Early Development adopted a resolution to urge the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development to ban transgender girls from participating in girls’ sports.

The proposed projects cost a total of $37,786,928 and are slated to pay for both security and structural upgrades to schools within the district.

Amidst calls to raise the Base Student Allocation (BSA), Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Tuesday presented his latest effort to improve teacher recruitment and retention in Alaska, the Teacher Retention and Recruitment Incentive bill.

Governor Mike Dunleavy announced education-focused legislation on Tuesday that he hopes will find new solutions to problems facing Alaska’s public education system.

It’s been a hard time for some students, teachers, and families at Abbott Loop Elementary, as many are starting to have to say goodbye to a school that they cherish.

Speaker after speaker Sunday encouraged their legislators to address education funding and raise the Base Student Allocation, a minimal amount of money set aside for K-12 students.

Bus drivers in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District have tentatively agreed to a contract with Durham School Services.

Members of the House minority coalition call for deeper investment and legislator engagement on two key issues dominating the session

A new commissioner has been appointed to head the Department of Education and Early Development.

Anchorage School District alerted the parents of the 268 students who attend Abbott Loop Elementary School where they will attend next year in an email sent Friday evening.

The district said repairs have taken longer than anticipated but they expect students to be back in class on Monday, although they will confirm that by Sunday night.

The school board says they invite parents and anyone in the community to bring items that they want to be addressed to the controversial issues committee.

According to the district’s senior director of student nutrition Marci McGill a shortage of cafeteria managers has essentially closed lunch rooms in a number of schools.

Education funding was a major topic of discussion during a press availability for the Alaska Senate majority coalition.

The agreement says students are only to be restrained when there is imminent danger of “serious physical harm to the student to another person.”

The goal is to meet the needs of each student while making sure they're performing at the appropriate grade level so they can succeed.

The union representing the drivers, Alaska Teamsters Union - Local 959, announced that all students in the district — a student population of over 18,000 — were dropped off Tuesday morning at their respective schools before the bus drivers went on strike.

Bus drivers employed by contractor Durham School Services decided Tuesday to initiate a strike.