McNichol opts out of second school board term
The school board race has held the biggest surprise of this year’s municipal election so far: Board president Jennifer McNichol will not run again for her seat this fall.
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With no management contract, is it game over for Sitka’s Community Schools?
Sitka’s Community Schools are closing at the end of the month (June 30). The school district hasn’t been able to find new management for the after-school and weekend activity program for kids and adults, after cutting back the budget by 75-percent.
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Insurance relief restores 8 positions to Sitka school budget
An unexpected break from the city’s insurance carrier has left the Sitka School District with some extra cash -- enough to preserve 4 teaching jobs, and 4 staff and admin jobs that were due to be cut.
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With a bird, Sitka board calls fowl on governor’s proposed K-12 funding cuts
The Sitka School Board is unwilling to prepare a budget for next year that is 25-percent lower than this year -- simply on the odds that Gov. Dunleavy will succeed in rolling back education funding. Instead, the board is betting that Alaskans will reject the governor’s scheme and its “catastrophic” impact on schools, in favor of supporting the state’s children.
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With latest testing, Sitka School Board confronts ‘achievement gap’
Sitka students overall are performing better on standardized testing than the state average, but Alaska Natives are not doing as well as their non-Native peers. The so-called “achievement gap” has been a source of concern in the Sitka School District for over a decade.
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