Camp directors across Alaska are redoing their summer programs to prepare to welcome campers during the pandemic.
Education
A rural Alaska school district said it was blindsided by its principal’s arrest. Except he’d been investigated twice before.
In a state with a history of failing to protect children, and in a region with a sexual assault rate more than six times the national average, parents of girls are asking the same question: How was this allowed to happen?
The pandemic is making it especially difficult to recruit teachers to rural Alaska schools
Normally right now, staff would be at recruitment fairs across the country looking for teachers willing to sign up for the ultimate Alaska adventure.
After hours of public comment, Mat-Su school board’s vote to rescind book removal is pushed to later this month
The Mat-Su school board will now decide later in May whether to rescind its vote to remove the books, including “The Great Gatsby,” “Catch-22” and “Invisible Man.”
UAA honors spring graduates with online celebration, in lieu of an in-person ceremony
The University of Alaska Anchorage is opting for a more socially-distant way to celebrate the spring class of 2020: It’s launching a website on graduation day with video tributes and speeches.
As Mat-Su school board reconsiders banning books, Alaska band Portugal. The Man offers them for free
The Grammy-winning, Alaska-grown rock band Portugal. The Man is offering to send five books recently banned from school curriculum in the Mat-Su, where several band members grew up, to students there who want to read them.