Former Soldotna teacher guilty of 24 acts of sex abuse of minor
A Kenai jury found a former Soldotna High School teacher, 37-year-old Nathaniel E. Erfurth, guilty of 24 counts of Sexual Abuse of a Minor in the Second Degree and four counts of Unlawful Exploitation of a Minor in the First
OPINION: Help us ‘cause disruption’ in Alaska schools that aim to queer our kids
Through this Alaska Informed Parents action step, our intent is to cause disruption knowing that parents have every right to protect their kids from being
How Alaska parents can opt students out of LGBTQ indoctrination
Alaska Family Council is providing an opt-out form that parents of faith with objections to the LGBTQIA agenda can now use to opt their children out of sex ed, instructional activities and programs covering issues of sexual orientation or gender identity,
GOP defectors join Alaska Dems to override Dunleavy and dump $51M more into failing schools
Alaska Democrats and their ideological allies in the GOP joined forces to thwart Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of $51 million in new funding, which state lawmakers had previously approved for Alaska’s chronically underperforming public education
Gov. Dunleavy: Leading lawmakers ‘don’t seem to care’ about Alaska’s failing schools
As the Alaska Legislature gathered in Juneau on Aug. 2 for a special session focused on public education reform and increasing Alaska’s food production and security, there were reports that legislative leadership would gavel in to hold two veto override
Defiant leftist lawmakers have no desire to pass policy changes for Alaska’s failing schools
It appears that Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s attempt to get left-leaning lawmakers to pass concrete educational reforms has fallen on defiant ears. Rather than focus on expanding school choice, instituting educational tax credits and addressing a student reading
Gov. Dunleavy urges lawmakers to reform Alaska’s failing schools during special session
Gov. Dunleavy has outlined specific policy priorities he wants the Alaska Legislature to tackle when lawmakers reconvene in special session on August 2. His top priority is education reform, which includes concrete policies tied to any funding
Gov. Dunleavy: Alaska’s traditional public schools are failing too many of our children
At the heart of this conversation is a simple but powerful truth: Alaska’s traditional public education system is failing too many of our children. State assessment data and national rankings reflect this reality. Alaskan parents, both in rural and urban
LEAKED: School-choice champ exposes NEA’s radical agenda for public schools
The National Education Association, which includes an estimated 11,000 Alaska educators, has a new radical, anti-Trump, anti-immigration enforcement, anti-parental rights and pro-LGBTQ agenda, which it will be working to advance in Alaska and across the
ALERT: Alaskans need to urge Sen. Murkowski to back school choice in Big Beautiful Bill
Late Thursday night, June 26, the U.S. Senate Parliamentarian ruled that the Scholarship Tax Credits, which were a part of the Educational Choice for Children Act , violated Senate Reconciliation rules, resulting in the credits being removed from the
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