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Senate’s draft operating budget includes outstanding KPBSD pandemic relief funds
Public education advocates, students and staff have doggedly lobbied lawmakers for an increase to the state’s K-12 funding…
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Assembly ordinance would designate meeting time for student councils
The ordinance is sponsored by Assembly Vice President Tyson Cox and assembly member Ryan Tunseth
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Senate committee hears correspondence school allotment bill
A superior court judge ruled earlier this month that the allotments are unconstitutional
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Teachers, staff and community members ‘walk-in’ at 9 district schools
The unions representing Kenai Peninsula Borough School District staff organized a widespread, “walk-in” protest at Kenai, Soldotna, Seward,…
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Seward students explore future ambitions at Career Day
Seward High School hosted roughly two dozen Kenai Peninsula businesses Wednesday for the second annual Career Day, giving…
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SoHi students walk out for school funding
The protest was in response to the veto of an education bill that would have increased school funding
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4-day school week committee talks purpose of potential change, possible calendar
The change could help curb costs on things like substitutes, according to district estimates
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Borough awards contract for replacement of Seward High School track
The project is part of a bond package that funds major deferred maintenance projects at 10 borough schools
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‘They deserve better than this’
School board passes budget with broad swath of cuts, including pools, theaters and some support staff
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School Board approves rehiring retired teachers
There are at least 25 full-time positions that will need to be filled for the next fiscal year
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Homer students join statewide student walkout
The event was in response to Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto last month of an education bill passed by…
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District budgets for ‘worst-case scenario’, assumes no increase in state funding
‘This is all we can depend on’
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School district committee builds multiple budget scenarios amid uncertain state funding
‘We don’t get to play around on this one’
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Nikiski student arrested after school shooting threats
The juvenile student faces charges of terroristic threatening
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Some KPBSD schools could benefit from internet bill passed by House
If House Bill 193 becomes law, an additional six KPBSD schools would be eligible for the state’s grant…
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By 1 vote, lawmakers sustain Dunleavy veto of education bill
The bipartisan bill included $680 increase to per-student funding
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Students report mixed responses from lawmakers in education discussions
Delegates from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District lobbied the Alaska Legislature for more state funding and other…
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School board bets on state funding increase, issues teacher contracts
Thursday’s meeting came two days after board members convened to plan out the district’s immediate financial future
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Amid uncertain state school funding, KPBSD labors to assemble a budget plan
March 14 is the deadline by which Gov. Mike Dunleavy must either sign, veto or not sign a…