OPINION: Anchorage’s move to build new school, while closing 5, is a waste of state funds
Amid declining enrollment and the closure of 5 schools in the past 15 years, Anchorage still decided to build a brand new school with state
U.S. Supremes to hear transgender athlete case that could impact Alaska sports
On Jan. 13, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in a pair of cases that could determine whether Alaska and other states are allowed to protect women’s sports from male athletes who claim to identify as females. The cases, Little v.
OPINION: Prophets, geopolitics & defending parent rights in Alaska
The fundamental rights of Alaska parents to guide the upbringing of their children is being violated by hard-left school district activists and Alaska Family Council is preparing legal action to stop
EXPOSED: Univ. of Alaska forces social work students to affirm leftist DEI agenda
In order to graduate with a degree in social work from the state-funded University of Alaska, students must first demonstrate that they have fully embraced controversial notions about diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), gender identity and radical leftist
School Choice Expo aims to empower and equip Alaska parents
While the vast majority of Alaska children still attend traditional brick-and-mortar public schools, the landscape is rapidly changing, especially with the rapid rise in home education, charter school enrollment and private educational
AK education lobby says mostly empty schools need full-size gyms for town gatherings
Despite the fact that scores of Alaska schools don’t have even enough students to field a small basketball team and dozens are shuttering due to plummeting enrollment, the Alaska Association of School Boards (AASB) claims the cash-strapped state should
National watchdog lists 1,600 sexually explicit books in 80 Alaska schools
For Alaska, the website lists 14 school districts that contain 1,611 sexually explicit books across more than 80 separate
Removed Mat-Su student art display blasts ‘older white men,’ calls Statue of Liberty a ‘fraud’
A recently removed school-authorized student art display at the Mat-Su Central correspondence school explicitly blamed traditional ideas and “older white people” for spreading hate and turning America’s Statue of Liberty into a fraudulent symbol of
Fixing Alaska education (part 2): We must end our long history of indoctrination
It all comes down to choice and who gets to make it. Will our children be captive to a modern indoctrination system or will they be given the opportunity to learn in a manner consistent with the values of their parents? School vouchers are constitutional and
Fixing Alaska failing public education system, Part 1
Alaska’s public education system is facing financial collapse due to dropping attendance, but while our leadership in Juneau knows it, they are incapable of fixing things due to bureaucratic incompetence and a self-imposed limitation they find in the Alaska
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