Alaska joins 16 states urging court to back parents in school gender-ID cases
Alaska has signed onto a multistate “friend of the court” brief asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to uphold a lower-court ruling that California public schools cannot hide a student’s gender-identity “change” from
Chugiak-Eagle River plan to break from Anchorage aims to harmonize local govt.
Eaglexit, at its best, is not an argument about leaving something behind. It is an invitation to take greater responsibility for what comes next: to ask whether local government can be closer to the people, easier to understand, more accountable for the money
Alaska conference to tackle school indoctrination, medical freedom and more
Alaskans For Personal Freedom is holding its annual conference Oct. 3 in Anchorage, where it will address school indoctrination, medical freedom and much
Objective, performance-based Presidential fitness test returning to Alaska Schools
Thanks to efforts by President Trump, Alaska will soon reinstitute the more traditional, performance-based Presidential Physical Fitness Test to challenge and inspire
Fairbanks Assembly wants homeschool funds tied to testing mandates
Homeschool and parental rights advocates are sounding the alarm over a proposed resolution by the Fairbanks Borough Assembly that urges the State Legislature to require homeschool and correspondence students to take government-run academic tests in order to
Alaska opens applications for K-12 scholarship groups to help expand school choice
In what is expected to be a major financial boost for private, home and religious schooling across Alaska, Gov. Dunleavy announced that Alaska is now accepting applications from nonprofit groups seeking approval as K–12 Scholarship Granting
Anchorage classical Catholic school takes over former charter school to inspire kids with truth, beauty, goodness
The school fosters traditional faith and morals while teaching a rigorous classics-based education rooted in Greek, Latin, church history and the Western canon. Controversial topics such as critical race theory, LGBTQ politics and other issues plaguing many
Fairbanks resolves to block immigration officers from ‘safe-space’ schools
In a unanimously approved resolution filled with open disdain for President Trump’s efforts to enforce longstanding U.S. immigration laws, the left-wing Fairbanks School Board voted on Aug. 18 to reaffirm its commitment to block federal agents who seek
Alaska’s public schools have no business fomenting student political dissent
When school-day political walkouts become recurring instruments of pressure on elected officials, and when those actions arise within an educational environment surrounded by powerful institutional actors advancing the same policy objectives, a dangerous
Will Alaska’s justices ban recognition of biological sex in schools?
The Alaska Supreme Court is considering a case regarding transgender identity that could have enormous consequences for parents and
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