Anchorage schools fail to improve dismal reading skills
Despite a revamped approach to teaching reading, the Anchorage School District’s latest reading proficiency report reveals that students in grades K-2 are actually getting worse when it comes to achieving a basic skills. An October report shows that the
Report: Anchorage School District pays teachers not to teach
By Sarah Montalbano – Alaska Policy Forum Should public school teachers be paid not to teach? School districts and other government bodies often pay employees full wages and benefits for performing union work instead of their official duties.
As Anchorage enrollment implodes, school superintendent warns of $68M deficit
The Anchorage School District is shrinking, both in the sheer number of students and the revenue attached to each child it fails to enroll. In FY24 the district expects to face an estimated $68 million budget deficit. This is partly due to the fact that
Anchorage School District excludes white staff from leadership course
The Anchorage School District is offering a staff leadership program this summer that excludes white people from participating. Open to teachers, counselors or nurses, the Minority Leadership Program aims to “empower staff of Color to ascend through the
Anchorage students trained to embrace woke political activism
Under the stated aim of empowering youth to better engage the democratic process, Anchorage Youth Vote has spent the past two decades encouraging Anchorage School District students to embrace a litany of far-left political causes. Youth Vote was founded by
Vote NO on Anchorage school bonds: Focus must be students, not buildings
We all want our kids to have the best chance of success in life. Anchorage’s public schools play a vital role in that outcome. Unfortunately, we are hobbling our kids’ academic opportunities by allocating far too many of our nation-leading
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 schools to go mask optional on Feb. 28
On Feb. 28, the Anchorage School District will ditch its increasingly controversial mask mandate, which had inspired some parents to plan on sending children to school, mask free, next week. District Superintendent Deena Bishop announced Feb. 18 that schools
Anchorage school uses teacher training day for Buddhist meditation
Anchorage School District teachers at Bartlett High School are spending yet another taxpayer funded professional development day to train in Buddhist mindfulness prayer techniques on Feb. 18. An email to teachers describing the event notes that mindfulness is
Anchorage schools to drop divisive mask mandate on Jan. 3
A Dec. 15 notice from Anchorage School District Superintendent Deena Bishop notified parents and the community that public schools will go mask optional after students return from Christmas break. “Transmission numbers in Anchorage are trending down and the
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