On an 8-1 vote, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s school board approved a budget that members had described as “the worst-case scenario” during a Monday special meeting. Earlier this month, the board indicated its intention to move forward with a budget scenario that assumes no increase in state funding for education. The school district […]
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A temporary committee of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education tasked with exploring the possibility of a four-day school week on Monday considered a model calendar and discussed the “purpose” of possibly making such a change. KPBSD Director of Secondary Education Tony Graham presented a “hypothetical” calendar to the group that described […]
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The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s school board unanimously approved a resolution last week allowing the reemployment of retired teachers to address vacancies that would otherwise be unfilled. According to the resolution, reemployment of retired teachers without compromising their retirement benefits is allowed under a Senate bill signed into law in November 2018. That bill […]
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The school district plans to move forward with a budget that assumes no new state funding for K-12 education for fiscal year 2025. During a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s School Board on April 1 and a joint work session between the board and the Borough Assembly on April 2, the board […]
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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 Alaska House of Representatives on March 21 passed legislation that allows school districts to apply for more federal money to improve internet quality and speed in Alaska’s rural schools. House Bill 193 contains parts of a previous bill lawmakers loaded down with a conglomerate education package, which was vetoed earlier this month by Gov. […]
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Members of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Finance Committee on Monday honed three plans for the district’s immediate financial future. The meeting came less than a month after board members opted to build the district’s budget for the upcoming fiscal year around a state funding bump that was approved by lawmakers, but then vetoed […]
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