Compared to the other major school districts in Alaska, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has a low pupil/teacher ratio (PTR), according to the 2017-2018… Continue reading
A small act changed Chris Mburu’s life. Hilde Back, a holocaust survivor living in Sweden, decided to sponsor the education of a student in Kenya… Continue reading
Thumbs up, smiles and comments scrolled across the bottom of the screen as Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent Sean Dusek fielded questions from the… Continue reading
Right: Kelly Brewer’s second grade class at Kalifornsky Beach Elementary School took over the courtroom for the morning to put on a mock sentencing hearing… Continue reading
The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is exploring guidelines for repairs, replacements and improvements to standardize practices for the district. During Board of Education work… Continue reading
On the surface, Soldotna High School’s rendition of Cinderella may seem a little off. Instead of a fireplace, there is a boiler room and instead… Continue reading
The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District is going live on Nov. 14 when Superintendent Sean Dusek will login to Facebook in an online question and… Continue reading
Closing, or delaying school, is never an easy option for the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. In the face of either inclement weather or a… Continue reading
There is one objective in goalball: get the ball across the goal line. Each team has three players and one teammate propels the ball towards… Continue reading
For a short time Tuesday night, schools from all corners of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District were connected by a common cause and presentation:… Continue reading
The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education said goodbye to familiar faces and welcomed new ones at its first meeting following the October… Continue reading
Students from McNeil Canyon Elementary School walking the Homer Spit beaches last Friday have become the latest generation of citizen scientists participating in CoastWalk, the… Continue reading
A set of round dials mounted on a monitoring box in a cramped maintenance room are supposed to measure air pressure through the pneumatic system… Continue reading
The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District has the opportunity to obtain Narcan, a brand of the drug naloxone which temporarily blocks or reverses the effects… Continue reading
Students will be heading home 90 minutes earlier on Wednesday. The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will release all students early in order to allow… Continue reading
The first year’s results of the state’s new standardized public school assessments show that students in general aren’t doing as well as they could, but… Continue reading
Reading social media last week after the start of the Kenai Peninsula Borough school year, a reader might have thought kids got transported to school… Continue reading
Along the stretch of South Miller Loop Road to Nikiski North Star Elementary, students, with their families watching, patiently awaited the school bus that would… Continue reading
Some Kenai Peninsula Borough School District students will be braving the halls of high school for the first time this year, or greeting a new… Continue reading
To avoid any first day of school jitters, the Apple Bus Company will hold a practice run of the new bus routes on Monday in… Continue reading