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
Murkowski joins Dems in fighting Trump’s effort to downsize sprawling education dept.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski has, once again, broken with her Republican colleagues – this time to help Democrats maintain the colossal bureaucratic size and scope of the increasingly controversial U.S. Department of
Will a Democrat governor kill Alaska’s participation in the school-choice tax program?
Alaska’s participation in a national school-choice tax incentive program could be in jeopardy if a Democratic candidate is elected
OPINION: LGBTQ Pride parades can’t stop the Truth from marching on
While LGBTQ events and corporations withdrawing sponsorships are in the headlines, the most significant developments are taking place in the
U.S. Education Dept. blasts podcasters who claim homeschool parents are ‘dumb people’
Responding to ultra-liberal podcasters who claim homeschool parents are weird for wanting to direct the education of their children, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) praised home education as providing “proven
Alaska trains teachers to push students to accept critical race theory, question core values
Alaska’s education department is actively training classroom teachers to serve as left-wing cultural evangelists, pushing controversial beliefs about race, gender and identity on K-12th-grade students, before enlisting them as young
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