Burgeoning homeschool movement forces Fairbanks district to respond
Students in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District have had to endure a combination of divisive and aggressive leftist ideas, Covid closures and controversial masking policies. Many families have had enough, and are pulling their kids from
Parents aim to sue Anchorage School Board members over mask mandate
Anchorage School Board members who voted to impose mask mandates on more than 42,000 area students may soon be in legal trouble. A group of concerned Anchorage parents is employing an innovative legal strategy to hold the six left-leaning members of the
Anchorage archbishop partially restores ties with Catholic school
Roughly four months after the Catholic Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau cut spiritual ties with a nationally acclaimed and award-winning, conservative independent Catholic school, Archbishop Andrew Bellisario has partially restored relations. Last year,
Alaska abortion giant opposes bill to protect girls’ sports from biological males
While claiming to be a champion of women’s rights by aborting unborn babies, sterilizing wombs and pushing contraceptives to teenage girls, the Alaska chapter of Planned Parenthood is actively undercutting an effort to protect women’s sports from
Hearing set for Alaska bill to protect girls’ sports from transgender males
On March 4, Alaskans are invited to weigh in on a bill aimed at banning males who identify as transgender” from competing against biological females in high school sports. The bill aims to ensure fairness for Alaska’s female athletes. Introduced last
Fairbanks set to cut 70 teachers amid mass exodus from public schools
Facing a dramatic and continuing decline in student enrollment, the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District voted earlier this month to shutter three elementary schools. Now, it is set to eliminate nearly 70 full-time teacher positions for next year.
Americans for Prosperity summit aims to train Alaskans to advance freedom
The Alaska chapter of Americans for Prosperity is gearing up for part two of its three-part education summit. Led by state director Bernadette Wilson, the aim is to equip Alaskans with the tools, tactics, techniques and strategies to organize local
Fairbanks mom reports trans biological male who entered girls’ locker room
Johanna Ray planned a winter birthday party for her six-year-old son during the Feb. 22 open swim time at the Hamme Pool in Fairbanks. What was supposed to be a family friendly environment was quickly shattered when a transgender biological male entered into
Dear Sitka Assembly: Abandon the sinking ship of mandatory masking
Masks didn’t work prior to Covid, and don’t work in the age of Covid. That fact has never changed. I don’t fault you for being unable or unwilling to recognize that fact last summer, but now that yesterday’s proponents of masks are jumping their
Sitka superintendent calls cops upon hearing of plan to unmask kids
Sitka Superintendent Frank Hauser issued an alert to parents this week, warning them of a plan in which some parents appeared intent on sending kids to area schools without face masks. In an email to school families, Houser said the district had “learned
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