The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s 42 schools welcome kids back into classrooms.
This year’s election will take place on Oct. 7.
The district’s final budget adopted in July called for a halving of all activity stipends.
After a successful vote of the Alaska Legislature reversed Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of $50 million education funding on Saturday, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School… Continue reading
The vacated Redoubt Elementary facility would house Soldotna Montessori Charter School and River City Academy.
This year, the district closed Nikolaevsk School and very nearly closed Sterling Elementary School.
The missing funds could have led to further cuts to programming and staff on top of deep cuts made by the KPBSD Board of Education this year.
Multiple members of the board said they were frustrated by the state’s failure to fund education.
The two awards are based on comprehensive reviews of the district’s budget and financial reporting.
The new budget designed by the committee will be considered at a public hearing during the full board meeting on Monday evening.
School pools have repeatedly been raised as a possible option for closure and then saved at the last minute.
It could be closed next year.
The district issued “notices of non-retention” to all its pool managers, library aides and theater technicians.
Per-student funding was increased by $700 in an education bill passed by the Alaska Legislature in May.
Those notices were issued due to the ongoing uncertainty in state education funding.
The school serves a primarily Russian Old Believer community located about 19 miles outside of Homer.
The district is waiting both to see how the governor will exercise his veto rights and for the borough to finalize its contribution.
Homer High School graduates 69.
The school serves students in seventh through 12th grade and has an enrollment of about 80
Funding for improvements to the Homer High School entrance comes out of the 2022 bond package.
