The Sitka School District’s transition to the new Common Core Math curriculum has fallen behind schedule. Despite an intensive planning schedule in all buildings, program facilitator Lyle Sparrowgrove told the school board Tuesday night (2-4-14) that students won’t see new classroom materials until next fall.
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Common Core math was also on the agenda in a joint meeting between the school board and the student government of Sitka High School. But it was trumped by other issues raised by the high school students -- the high cost of student travel and activities, especially.
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In other business Tuesday night (2-4-14), the Sitka School Board put its weight behind an effort to increase funding for locally-sourced food in schools across the state. In a resolution to the legislature, the board cited the success of Sitka’s Fish to Schools program as justification for extending a similar statewide program beyond one year. Nutritional Alaska Food for Schools was introduced by Anchorage Republican Bill Stoltze in 2012, and piloted last year.
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Juneau Empire bans anonymous comments on website in favor of real identities. Wrangell Museum needs feet for children's programs. Unalaska seafood worker shares his personal connection to tragedy in South Sudan.
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New MEHS Girls Basketball coach Dane Vincent and players Renatta Olson (Jr-Golovin) Payton Weisz (So-Tok) discuss their prospects for the season, and the recent Battle of the Bridge with Sitka High.
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SHS Music director John DePalatis brings his Vocal Jazz Ensemble to the studio: Hallie Bernhoft, Samantha Robinson, Rosie Palof, Destony Rosas, and Cassie Gillespie perform 'Til There Was You from 'The Music Man.' The Sitka JazzFest runs this Thu-Sat, Feb 6-8. Tickets are $10/$25/$45 for an all-Festival pass.
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Two Sitka men indicted on weapons, drug charges after store employee notices stolen firearm. Blatchley health curriculum draws criticism from some concerned parents. Straley's "Cold Storage" arrives in bookstores today.
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Alaskan mystery writer John Straley’s latest novel hits bookstore shelves today (Tue 2-4-14).Cold Storage, Alaska is Straley’s eighth novel, and his first since 2008’s The Big Both Ways. But Straley says he actually wrote “Cold Storage” before his last novel, and had put it in a drawer.
This month, eighth graders at Blatchley Middle School will see a new class added to their schedule: comprehensive health education, including basic sex ed. The state doesn’t require the class, but educators feel strongly that middle school is the time to address healthy relationships. But some parents object to how the school has handled the program.
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Two Sitka men have been indicted on several charges of trafficking in drugs and stolen firearms. A grand jury last Friday (1-31-14) indicted 45 year old Michael Pizarro on one count of Theft in the second degree, one count of Misconduct Involving Weapons in the third degree, and one count of Misconduct Involving a Controlled Substance in the second degree. The grand jury indicted 22-year old Samuel Petro on one count of Theft in the second degree.
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