Education

Nicole Herbert will take on the role in March. She currently serves as the director of accounting services for the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District.

According to a recent report by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, it’s due to a mixture of increased outmigration and deaths outnumbering births in the region.

The district debuted the course as young people are rethinking the value of traditional bachelor’s degrees.

Anchorage and Juneau schools appear to face the biggest hit, but education officials warn the impacts could be felt more widely.

A vote on overriding the governor’s veto of an education bill has come up repeatedly in talks with voters, candidates said.

Until this month, there was no measure by which its schools could gauge reading competency in Alaska’s 23 officially-recognized Indigenous languages.

The job is already listed on the Juneau School District website. District administration say they hope to fill the position as soon as possible.

Education is increasingly reliant on the internet. In rural Alaska, who provides internet service to schools is a million-dollar question.

In court filings, former Superintendent Helen Cheek claims that school board President Harold Houston “continually overstepped the legal constraints of his authority over the Hoonah District.”

The motive behind the recall campaign doesn’t necessarily line up with the legal reason listed on the ballot.