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    School board member Patti Truesdell speaks during a meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District School Board in Soldotna, Alaska, on Monday, April 1, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)
    School Board approves rehiring retired teachers
    By Jacob Dye • April 10, 2024 1:30 am

    There are at least 25 full-time positions that will need to be filled for the next fiscal year

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    Homer High School students who joined schools from around the state in a high school walkout pose near the end of the event, on Thursday, April 4, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. Not all students who attended the event are in the image. (Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News)
    Homer students join statewide student walkout
    By Emilie Springer • April 5, 2024 1:30 am

    The event was in response to Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto last month of an education bill passed by the Alaska Legislature

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    Kyle McFall addresses attendees at a meeting to gauge interest in a Dena’ina-focused charter school hosted by the Kenaitze Indian Tribe on Thursday, March 28, 2024, in Kenai, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Kenaitze Indian Tribe hosts meeting to gauge interest...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • April 3, 2024 2:30 am

    The initiative comes amid heightened legislative interest in Alaska’s charter school system

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    Alaska Department of Education and Early Development Commissioner Deena Bishop and Gov. Mike Dunleavy discuss his veto of an education bill during a press conference Friday, March 15, 2024, at the Alaska State Capitol. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire)
    State owes KPBSD $9.7 million, federal government says
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • April 3, 2024 2:30 am

    DEED on Thursday pushed back on the federal government’s statement that it has not complied with requirements

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    Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Finance Director Liz Hayes, left, presents preliminary fiscal year 2025 budge information during a school board committee meeting on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    School district committee builds multiple budget scenarios amid...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 27, 2024 1:30 am

    ‘We don’t get to play around on this one’

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    Nikiski Republican Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, right, speaks against the Alaska Legislature’s Monday failure to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s veto of a comprehensive education bill during a press conference on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire)
    ‘The ball is now very clearly in their...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 20, 2024 2:30 am

    Senate looks to House on next steps for education funding

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    Rep. Sarah Vance, R-Homer, walks into the Alaska House of Representatives before consideration of a veto override regarding education funding on Monday, March 18, 2024 in Juneau, Alaska. (Mark Sabbatini/Juneau Empire)
    By 1 vote, lawmakers sustain Dunleavy veto of...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 20, 2024 2:30 am

    The bipartisan bill included $680 increase to per-student funding

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    Nikiski Middle/High School student Maggie Grenier testifies in favor of a base student allocation increase before the Alaska Senate Education Committee on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Screenshot)
Nikiski Middle/High School student Maggie Grenier testifies in favor of a base student allocation increase before the Alaska Senate Education Committee on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Screenshot)
    Students report mixed responses from lawmakers in education...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 13, 2024 3:30 am

    Delegates from the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District lobbied the Alaska Legislature for more state funding and other education priorities

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    The Kachemak Selo Middle-High School building sits against a backdrop of the ridge separating the village from the Kenai Peninsula Borough road system Thursday, Aug. 30 in Kachemak-Selo. (Photo by Megan Pacer/Homer News)
    Borough, state at odds over best path forward...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 13, 2024 2:30 am

    Micciche said Wednesday that he and the Senate president are working together to determine a viable path forward

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    Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Finance Director Liz Hayes, left, presents preliminary fiscal year 2025 budge information during a school board committee meeting on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    School board bets on state funding increase, issues...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 13, 2024 2:30 am

    Thursday’s meeting came two days after board members convened to plan out the district’s immediate financial future

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    Anchor Point Chamber of Commerce board of directors president Dawson Slaughter (right) presents Chapman School principal Heidi Stokes with the Educator/Faculty of the Year Award during the Community Awards ceremony on Saturday, March 2, 2024 at the VFW in Anchor Point, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)
    Chapman principal Heidi Stokes receives educator of the...
    By Emilie Springer • March 13, 2024 1:30 am

    The chamber of commerce awarded the honor at Anchor Point’s Snow Rondi event at the end of February

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    Rep. Justin Ruffridge, R-Soldotna, speaks in support of a bill increasing state funds for public education in the Alaska House of Representatives on Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024 in Juneau, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Bill seeking to bump use of Alaska Performance...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 6, 2024 2:30 am

    The money is awarded to high-performing high school graduates to help pay for postsecondary education at participating institutions in Alaska

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    Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, presents information on a bill establishing a voluntary buyback program for Cook Inlet’s east side setnet fishery on Monday, Feb. 19, 2024, in Juneau, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    Bjorkman bill would pay bonuses to nationally certified...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • March 6, 2024 2:30 am

    The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development estimates that the bonus program would apply to about 215 of Alaska’s estimated 7,315 teachers — about 3%

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