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    Abortion chain makes final push for Anchorage school board candidates who back radical sex-ed agenda

    Education Joel Davidson - 6
    Planned Parenthood, the largest abortion business in Alaska, is making a last-ditch effort to ensure that the Anchorage School Board remains firmly in support...
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    OPINION: Anchorage parent urges school board to reject critical race theory in classrooms

    Education Annie Massey - 4
    After listening to hours of work sessions, board meetings and both townhalls hosted by the Anchorage School District last month, I do not support...
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    Mat-Su hopes to end all school mask mandates by June 1

    Education Joel Davidson - 5
    The age of mask mandates for students, teachers, staff, parents and others in Mat-Su schools will likely come to an end on June 1. This...
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    TODAY: Town hall will address effort to inject critical race theory across Anchorage schools

    Culture Joel Davidson - 21
    The Anchorage School District will hold the second of two online townhall meetings on March 30 to address its plan to inject critical race...
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    Graduation requirement nixed but new bill still aims to fix Alaska’s erratic civics education

    Education Joel Davidson - 3
    A proposed mandatory civics test for Alaska students to graduate high school has been nixed. It would have required students to be able to...
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    Public hearings set on plan to inject radical racial-justice philosophy in Anchorage schools

    Education Joel Davidson - 10
    Before implementing progressive critical race theory policies across the entire Anchorage School District, the Anchorage School board will to hear from the public on...
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    Alaska leads the way in national homeschool surge

    Education Joel Davidson - 2
    In the wake of COVID, homeschooling has skyrocketed across the United States, but no state has seen a greater increase than Alaska. A new report...
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    Conference enlists libraries to indoctrinate Alaskans with leftist dogma

    Education Joel Davidson - 8
    These are not the libraries that most people recall from childhood. Alaska’s libraries, like those around the nation, increasingly see themselves as government-funded centers for...
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    Planned Parenthood urges Anchorage to elect pro-abortion school board that backs radical LGBT/sex-ed agenda

    Abortion Joel Davidson - 8
    Planned Parenthood has a vested interest in making sure the Anchorage School Board is stacked with pro-abortion members who back radical sex education and...
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    Anchorage School Board candidates’ views on parent rights, curriculum debates, low test scores, sex-ed, gender ID

    Abortion Joel Davidson - 6
    Anchorage education is in crisis. Test scores are dismal, many students are struggling with school closures and virtual classrooms, and radical social ideologies are...
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    Conference will train AK librarians to advance radical identity politics

    Education Joel Davidson - 14
    If the topics and speakers for the upcoming Alaska Library Association Conference are any indication, local librarians are being strategically trained and recruited to...
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    Anchorage teacher’s union backs far left candidates for April 6 election

    Education Davidson Joel - 9
    The Anchorage Education Association (AEA), which boasts 13,000 members, has thrown its support behind some of the most left-leaning candidates on the April 6...
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    Senators, Alaska education commissioner say education without U.S. civics lacks a high purpose

    Culture Joel Davidson - 7
    It’s not often that quotes from Benjamin Franklin, Plato and President John F. Kennedy echo through the Alaska Senate Education Committee chambers. The March...
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    Senators want Alaska students to pass civics portion of U.S naturalization test before graduating

    Culture Joel Davidson - 6
    A bill, which is currently before the Alaska Senate, would require all high school seniors to pass the test used by Homeland Security when...
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    Murkowski votes against effort to protect women’s sports from transgender movement

    Education Joel Davidson - 6
    Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who regularly casts herself as a defender of women’s rights when it comes to supporting abortion, failed to back an amendment...
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    Anchorage libraries continue rapid transformation into bastions of leftist ideology

    Culture Joel Davidson - 4
    Libraries across Anchorage will continue their rapid transformation as local epicenters against so-called systemic racism, white privilege and social inequity. They will also expand...
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    National abortion chain endorses Anchorage mayoral and school board candidates

    Abortion Jim Minnery - 12
    As I write this, the U.S. Senate is considering the nomination of one of the most pro-abortion candidates for Health and Human Services in...
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    ASAA tables plan to punish Alaska student athletes for ‘hate speech’

    Education Joel Davidson - 14
    The Alaska School Activities Association (ASAA) postponed action to impose severe penalties on any student athlete who uses certain words deemed “hate speech.” The item...
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    2.20 > Career & Tech Admissions

    Education Jake Libbey - 5
    At the repeated request of parents we looked into a story involving the Matsu Borough School District and the recent, sudden change, in the...
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    2.18 > Training Tattle-Tales

    Education Joel Davidson - 1
    Alaska School Activities Association (or ASAA) is the governing body that oversees high school sports across the state. We recently published a story detailing a...
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