District officials said students were briefly evacuated to the playground while police cleared the school. Classes were back to normal as of 1 p.m.
Education
State says Juneau School District can keep last year’s additional city funding
The district can keep $2.3 million in “outside the cap” funding it got from the city, but an amendment to state law could prevent the practice in the future.
In the battle over books, who gets to decide what’s age-appropriate at libraries?
There are efforts to change how decisions are made about which books libraries should stock and which section they belong in. Some advocate using a national rating system like the one used for movies.
Mat-Su School District’s removal of books from school libraries prompts federal lawsuit
A lawsuit filed Friday in federal court accuses the Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District of violating six students’ constitutional rights by removing books from school library shelves last spring.
Lower enrollment grows Juneau School District’s operating fund deficit
District leaders will start considering budget cuts next month.
To prevent domestic violence, Alaska schools teach healthy relationships
The Lower Kuskokwim School District’s itinerant social workers are a model for how curriculum and mentorship can reach even the most remote schools.
Hundreds of Mat-Su students stage walkout to protest school board decisions
Organizers of the protest say students at seven Mat-Su high schools walked out.
University of Alaska graduate students vote to unionize
Graduate students across the state – mostly at UAF in Fairbanks – are joining Alaska Graduate Workers Association-United Auto Workers.
‘Kuhaantí,’ a children’s book written entirely in Lingít, is the first of its kind in decades
The book will launch on Friday in Juneau with a storytime event at Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall.
Alaska governor’s staff deleted state agency’s analysis of teacher pay
The article would have been on cover of Alaska Economic Trends for October.