“We need funding.” “Raise the BSA.” “I don’t know what I’ve been told, lack of funding’s getting old.” “We need teachers.” Those were a few of the chants that erupted from a crowd of well over 100 students who walked out of Soldotna High School on Wednesday to protest Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a […]
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Alana Greear, elementary teacher at Kachemak-Selo School, joins the race for the District 6 seat of the Alaska State House alongside Anchor Point-based candidate Dawson Slaughter and incumbent Sarah Vance. Greear filed a letter of intent with the Alaska Division of Elections on April 5, and is running as an independent. Greear has a master’s […]
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About 40 Homer High School students participated in a statewide 40-minute school walkout beginning at 11 a.m. Thursday morning. Sophomore Ella Gustufson said she first started hearing about the event via social media on Wednesday afternoon, April 3, and began sharing information about it with other Homer students. Gustufson said there is an Instagram page […]
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The State of Alaska owes the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District almost $10 million in COVID-19 relief funds and is now considered a high-risk grantee, according to a letter sent from the U.S. Department of Education on Wednesday, March 27. The federal government in that letter asserts that the Alaska Department of Education and Early […]
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A bill that aims to provide municipal property tax relief to Alaska farmers cleared the Senate on Monday, March 18, with unanimous support from lawmakers. The bill, Senate Bill 161, is sponsored by Nikiski Republican Jesse Bjorkman and changes the way tax breaks and exemptions for Alaska farmers are structured. The legislation would expand an […]
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