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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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    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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    Proposal would punish Alaska athletes for ‘hate speech’

    Education Joel Davidson - 6
    The Alaska School Activities Association, which governs high school sports across the state, is set to vote on a new policy that would impose...
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    Dunleavy: Alaskans should be empowered to choose how their kids are educated

    Education Joel Davidson - 2
    Gov. Mike Dunleavy is highlighting the choices Alaskans have when educating children, whether that be private, public, charter, religious, online or home-schools. In observance of...
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    Who could be against school choice in Alaska?

    Education Leigh Sloan - 3
    Alaskans love choice and have lots to celebrate with the many publicly funded schooling options available for our children. We can choose standard public...
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    Fairbanks approves LGBTQ class in narrow 4-3 vote

    Education Joel Davidson - 4
    After a year of unprecedented public comment over highly controversial changes to the Fairbanks School District’s curriculum, the final piece of the language arts...
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    Eastman vs. Sumner for Alaska House: Here’s where they stand

    Abortion Joel Davidson - 0
    In the race for the Alaska House seat in District 10 (Wasilla), the Alaska Watchman is not making any endorsements. In order to give...
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    Scrambling Anchorage parents ask school district for homeschool stipends

    Education Joel Davidson - 1
    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 - 1
    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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