Mat-Su School Board empowers parents, restricts activist teachers
In a 6-1 vote on June 7, the Mat-Su School Board approved a host of changes to its policies relating to parental rights, teacher activism, sex education and the use of LGBTQ pronouns in public schools. The changes strengthen parental rights and restrict the
Mat-Su School Board looks to boost parent rights & curtail activist teachers at June 7 meeting
At its June 7 meeting, the Mat-Su School Board is looking to make substantial changes its board policies in order to boost parental rights while restricting the ability of educators to use schools and classroom time to push divisive social activism,
ACLU trains activists to fight Mat-Su’s effort to remove graphic sexual books from schools
Not only does Alaska ACLU want gender-confused biological males to have access to girls’ showers, dressing rooms and sports teams, but they are also now actively organizing and training hard-left activists to oppose the Mat-Su School Districts effort to
Mat-Su revamps protocols to protect students in wake of controversial school book fair
Mat-Su schools that plan to host book fairs in which private vendors sell materials to children and parents, must now first provide parents with a list of the books on display. Additionally, parents must be notified two weeks prior to the fair so they have
Mat-Su school book fair features gay romance, coming out, queer fantasy books
A March 23-24 book fair at Teeland Middle School in Wasilla featured books celebrating gay teen romance, LGBTQ activism, queer fantasy and transgender sexual identity. Held in the 6th-through-8th grade school library, the event took place during school hours,
Hundreds of graphic sexual books circulate through Mat-Su school libraries
While the Mat-Su Valley may be a politically and culturally conservative area of Alaska, the school system contains hundreds of highly graphic and extremely sexual books, which are embedded in school libraries across the district. From the elementary level
Private fireworks are legal in Mat-Su borough for New Years
Mat-Su Borough residents who live outside city limits are free to shoot off fireworks on private property to ring in the new year. A Dec. 30 notice from the borough clarifies that using fireworks will be legal “only on New Year’s Eve beginning at 6
Mat-Su teachers being trained to push radical ‘social justice’ agenda
Hundreds of newly hired teachers in the Mat-Su School District are being instructed to infuse their classrooms with controversial and divisive ideas rooted in critical race theory. The Matanuska Susitna Education Association (MSEA), which represents more than
CALL TO ACTION: Let’s flip the leftist Anchorage Assembly and save our dying city
Anchorage, if you want lower taxes and conservative social policies, we have a phenomenal opportunity to flip our Assembly on April 7 from a supermajority of radical leftists to a conservative majority, and we shouldn’t let it go to
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
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