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    Education
    The Homer High School Swing Choir performs at the Homer Senior Center on Dec. 9, 2022 in Homer, Alaska. (Photo by Kyle Schneider)
    Holiday cheer
    By Emilie Springer • December 14, 2022 2:30 am

    Swing Choir performs ‘Candlelight, Carols and Dessert’ on Thursday

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    Mountain View Elementary School teacher Callie Giordano demonstrates with students “word building” with practices from the University of Florida Literacy Institute during a board of education meeting on Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Mountain View students demo literacy curriculum at school...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • December 9, 2022 2:30 am

    Principal Karl Kircher said the Alaska Reads Act is “foremost” on the minds of the school community

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    A mock-up of an A-Frame property that would be located across the street from the Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies Wynn Nature Center and used by the Homer Forest Charter School shows places for classroom yurts, a dormitory and kitchen, a parking area with bus parking and staff housing. The configuration was presented Monday, Dec. 5, 2022, to the Kenai Peninsula Borough School Board of Education. (Via Homer Forest Charter School presentation to school board)
    Efforts to open K-8 nature school in Homer...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • December 6, 2022 2:30 am

    Charter organizers proposed changing the school’s opening date from 2023 to 2024

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    Consular Masaru Aniya bestows Yasuko Lehtinen with the Foreign Minister Commendation on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, at Kenai Peninsula College in Soldotna, Alaska. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    Friendship, goodwill and cultural understanding
    By Jacob Dye • November 2, 2022 1:30 am

    KPC professor honored for fostering relationship between Kenai Peninsula and Japan

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    Dr. Beverley Romanin attends her first meeting as the representative for the Board of Education’s Sterling/Funny River district on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    New school board member brings educational expertise to...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • October 21, 2022 2:30 am

    Beverley Romanin is Sterling and Funny River’s new representative

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    Staff move tables ahead of lunchtime at Soldotna Elementary School on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    ‘Critical needs’: Aging school on the brink
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • October 6, 2022 2:30 am

    Renovations are cost prohibitive at Soldotna Elementary

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    Efrosinia Yakunin, a Nikolaevsk parent, testifies in support of a charter school for the area during a board of education meeting on Monday, Oct. 3, 2022, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    2 groups pursue peninsula charter school options
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • October 6, 2022 2:30 am

    There are currently four charter schools operating as part of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District

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    Nikiski Middle/High School Principal Shane Bostic stands near a track and field long jump sand pit on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, in Nikiski, Alaska. The track is one of several projects in a bond package Kenai Peninsula voters will consider during the Oct. 4 municipal election next month. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    ‘Critical needs’: Nikiski athletes await upgrade
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • September 26, 2022 2:30 am

    Funding for long-delayed school projects on Oct. 4 ballot

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    Project GRAD Awarded a Federal Grant to Serve Isolated Public Schools
    Project GRAD Awarded a Federal Grant to Serve...
    By Staff report Homer News • September 22, 2022 1:30 am

    $3.36 million awarded for Project GRAD’s POWER UP program

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    Krista Schooley (left) testifies before the Kenai Peninsula Borough Board of Education on Monday, June 7, 2021 in Kenai, Alaska. (Screenshot)
    A ‘groundswell’: Conservative coalition seeks to expand influence...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • June 16, 2021 2:30 am

    The vision of KPCCC is to “restructure and build the foundation of the 7 Mountains of Influence in our society through conservative action.”

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    University officials are hoping that increased collaboration between the University of Alaska's three schools of education will result in more Alaskans becoming teachers. The Univerity of Alaska Southeast, seen here in this October 2020 file photo, offers teacher training and retention programs. (Peter Segall / Juneau Empire file)
    Help wanted: Alaskans to teach Alaska’s students
    By Dana Zigmund • June 9, 2021 1:30 am

    New consortium and marketing campaign aims to retain and recruit teachers

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    University cuts are difficult, but manageable, UA president says
    University cuts are difficult, but manageable, UA president...
    By Peter Segall • February 5, 2020 5:10 pm

    UA is more focused.

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