Failing Fairbanks District set to shutter 5 schools as enrollment plummets
Facing rapidly declining enrollment, poor student test results and a growing number of families who have opted to leave standard public schooling for homeschool, the Fairbanks School District is set to permanently shutter five schools. The school board will
FORUM: Two Fairbanks School Board candidates back radical LGBTQ agenda, explicit sex-ed
Fairbanks has some hard leftists seeking to serve on the local school board – candidates who fully support pushing LGBTQ indoctrination and explicit sex-ed classes on young
Gay foreplay videos are part of proposed mandatory health class in Fairbanks schools
In the name of diversity, equity and inclusion, the Fairbanks School District is planning to roll out a new compulsory high school health curriculum that includes materials such a graphic Planned Parenthood-produced videos depicting various LGBTQ actors
Fairbanks has until May 7 to vote on $10M tax hike for shrinking public schools
Hard left organizations and the Fairbanks public teachers’ union are pressing residents to approve a $10 million dollar increase in additional borough taxes to benefit Fairbank’s shrinking government-run school
Concerns raised that leftist dogma will be smuggled into Alaska schools via ‘mental health’ bill
Concerns raised that leftist dogma will be smuggled into Alaska schools via ‘mental health’
Despite tanking enrollment, Fairbanks wants to raise taxes by $10M to benefit public schools
Sponsored by Borough Mayor Bryce Ward and Assembly members Savannah Fletcher and Brett Rotermund, the ordinance aims to ask borough residents if they would approve an increase to the tax cap so that the borough could tax residents an additional $10 million
Planned Parenthood seeks to stack Fairbanks School Board with radical, pro-abort LGBTQ activists
Planned Parenthood wants to stack Fairbanks School Board with extreme and radical, pro-abort and LGBTQ
Amid threat of parental backlash, Fairbanks School Board nixes LGBTQ sex books
After years of actively pushing controversial sexualized material into classrooms, the Fairbanks School Board seems to have noticed how costly this cultural war has become. At its June 6 meeting, the board voted to approve two health books for middle school
ON RECORD: 21 Alaska educators who don’t want parents to know of LGBTQ/sex-ed agenda
On rare occasion do Alaska public school educators openly air a distain for conservative parents, religious values or traditional views of morality and human sexuality. The nearly 400 pages of public testimony submitted on House Bill 105, however, provides a
Alaska House Candidate: Here’s how to stop leftists from destroying public schools
Alaska’s education system has failed our children. Nationally, Alaska is 47th in education and our fourth graders are dead last. How can this be when Alaska spends more per-pupil on education than most other states in the nation? That’s abject failure.
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