Education

Balancing Act focuses on building the district’s operating budget and allows people to submit what they think it should look like.

The school board unanimously approved returning the funds following multiple delays since November as board members mulled over the future of after-school child care in the district.

Lawmakers with the bipartisan majority caucus have expressed support for more funding for schools, but point to Gov. Dunleavy’s history of vetoes as a major roadblock.

Support for grant funded positions and teacher’s contracts became the main issue during the Juneau School Board’s budget public forum last week.

The search firm hired by the school district will use data from surveys and stakeholder meetings to narrow down the 19 candidates.

The district could dip into its savings or reduce services to cover the funding gap.

The Juneau School District Board of Education is working with a search firm to collect feedback from the community before it makes a hiring decision.

Roughly half of Alaska’s school districts qualified for the five year grant program, which is managed by the state’s education department.

Students are speaking out about how unresolved contract negotiations between the district and its teaching and support staff unions are affecting them in the classroom.

The student council is calling on the Skagway School Board to make the attendance policy more inclusive by allowing students to take seven subsistence days per semester.