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    Scrambling Anchorage parents ask school district for homeschool stipends

    Education Joel Davidson - 0
    Parents are petitioning the Anchorage School District for financial help as they take on the task of homeschooling their children this year. The district notified...
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    Supreme Court rules states can’t discriminate against religious schools

    Education Joel Davidson - 0
    On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that states cannot prohibit tuition grants or scholarships to private religious schools if they award...
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    Homeschool numbers in Mat-Su may double

    Education Joel Davidson - 0
    In the wake of COVID-19, it appears the number of homeschool students may double in the Mat-Su Borough, which is home to the state's...
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    Harvard’s anti-homeschool summit cancelled

    Education Joel Davidson - 0
    An anti-homeschool summit that was scheduled for next month at Harvard Law School has reportedly been cancelled. According to one of the invited speakers, the...
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    Schools took the role of parents because we let them

    Education Joel Davidson - 0
    Much has been said about Alaskan student test scores lately. We now hold the honor of being dead last in literacy rates. That's right,...
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    Fairbanks parents defeated by school district’s pro-LGBT forces

    Culture Joel Davidson - 0
    Battle hardened educational bureaucrats finally pushed aside Fairbanks parents and concerned community members to force through a curriculum that weaves leftist ideology, multiculturalism and...
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    Anti-homeschool summit features influential Alaskan

    Education Joel Davidson - 0
    Parental rights advocates are concerned about an upcoming Harvard summit in June that includes nationally known figures who want homeschooling banned and/or heavily regulated...
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    Alaska allows graduation ceremonies with strict limits

    Education Joel Davidson - 0
    Alaska’s high school graduates will be allowed to participate in small, heavily sanitized in-person graduation ceremonies under new COVID-19 health guidelines released from the...
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    Tips for Alaskans considering homeschool this fall

    Education Daryl Bowers - 0
    In response to COVID-19, Alaska took the unprecedented step of closing schools from mid-March until the end of the school year. Schools both in...
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    Alaska schools closed for rest of the academic year

    Education Joel Davidson - 0
    Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced April 9 that all of Alaska’s public and private K-12th grade schools will remain closed for the remainder of the...
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    Alaska’s homeschool ranks surge amid virus outbreak

    Education Joel Davidson - 0
    With COVID-19 shutting down all traditional public schools in Alaska, tens of thousands of parents have been thrust, almost overnight, into the role of...
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    Homeschool options: A list of all state-funded programs in Alaska

    Education Joel Davidson - 0
    Alaska offers 30 public-homeschool programs for students across the state. These options provide parents with a roughly $2,000 educational allotment for each enrolled child....
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    The sad, bizarre state of Alaska’s government schools

    Education Lance Roberts - 0
    Earlier this month the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District published the final draft of its new policies on transgender students. It was going...
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    Alaska’s failing public schools need some stiff competition

    Education Bob Flint - 0
    In late 2019 Alaskans learned that, despite spending more than 1.6 billion dollars every year on education, our elementary and high school students ranked...
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    Alaska parents have rights when schools push LGBT agenda

    Education Joel Davidson - 0
    In 1978, the Pupil Rights Amendment (PPRA), otherwise known as the Hatch Amendment was passed after parents were shocked and outraged to learn that...
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    Governor: Alaska parents have choices when educating kids

    Education Joel Davidson - 0
    Governor Mike Dunleavy is highlighting the opportunities Alaskans have to send their children to private, public, charter, religious or home-schools. In observance of National School...
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    Letter to school board: Keep pornographic LGBT material away from our kids

    Culture Lance Roberts - 0
    The big issue in Fairbanks this week was the pornographic LGBT curriculum the Fairbanks North Star School District's curriculum committee is trying to add...
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    It’s not a dirty word – we’re all ‘political’

    Culture Joel Davidson - 0
    Calling anything “political” is now akin to an outright insult. Even politicians shy away from the “political” label these days. The word, however, simply...
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    Education on their terms: Alaska homeschoolers reap moral, academic rewards

    Education Rashae Ophus Johnson - 0
    Students in an exclusive Eagle River school learn coding and robotics in science, study American Sign Language and Latin in language arts, and master...
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    Alaska youth equipped to defend faith, engage society

    Education Joel Davidson - 0
    A new generation of culturally and politically minded young Alaskans are preparing to bring a Christian worldview to the pressing issues of their day. For...
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