Ed. Commissioner: Data shows Alaska homeschoolers outpace standard public schools
Alaska Education Commissioner says brick-and-mortar public school students need far more help than homeschoolers, who perform better
ACLU asks AK Supremes to block Mat-Su policy barring students from using opposite sex bathrooms
After losing a lower court case earlier this year, the ACLU of Alaska is now appealing to the Alaska Supreme Court to strike down a Mat-Su School District policy that blocks gender-confused students from entering bathrooms of the opposite
OPINION: Alaska’s students suffer when teachers lack basic moral clarity
The academic mindset - mocking parents, blurring moral lines, and inverting good and evil - shapes how universities prepare teachers, and how those ideas filter into Alaska
Sitka School Board blocks citizens from mentioning teacher who lauded bloody attack on local conservative
The Sitka School Board shut down a group of upset citizens who showed up to a recent meeting to express their concerns about a local middle school teacher who praised a violent attack that landed a local conservative man in the hospital with a concussion,
FAILING GRADE: 2/3 of Alaska students still can’t pass reading, math, science
The latest state and national assessments of Alaska’s public school students reveal that the failure to teach basic reading, math and science is a continuing and chronic
OPINION: Anchorage teachers’ union is squeezing district for $69M pay hike
The Anchorage School District has come to an impasse in its contract negotiations with the Anchorage Education Association. The district has negotiated in good faith with the teachers’ union for nine months without reaching an agreement. Both have agreed on
Anchorage School District seeks to skirt Trump ban on DEI grants by ‘reframing’ content
Anchorage School District officials are coaching potential grant writers to “reframe” all “equity or DEI components” in classes or programs that seek federal grants under the Trump
Transgender teacher disrespects Alaska Native culture, Bethel parents say
“I would like the LGBT people to respect our Yup’ik culture," Carter said. "This lifestyle is not part of our tradition. It’s their
ON NOTICE: Alaska schools have 60 days to ditch LGBTQ sex-ed dogma or lose fed. funds
Alaska schools that subject children to LGBTQ dogma in their sex-ed programs now have 60 days to purge this controversial content or face the loss of federal sex-ed
Bethel parents to air concerns about transgender elementary teacher
On Aug. 26, Bethel parents plan to share their concerns about a male elementary school teacher who claims to be a woman, while wearing dresses in front of his young
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