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Graduates of Seward High School leave the gym at the end of their graduation ceremony on Wednesday, May 15.

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Seward High School graduates 30

Students were honored Wednesday, May 15, at a ceremony in their school’s gym

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Homer High School class of 2024 rises at the end of the Tuesday evening commencement program before heading to the Commons to be welcomed by friends and family.
Homer High School class of 2024 rises at the end of the Tuesday, May 14, 2024, commencement program before heading to the Commons to be welcomed by friends and family, in Homer, Alaska. (Emilie Springer/Homer News)

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‘You are the newest part of our legacy’

Homer High School Class of 2024 congratulated as they begin next chapter of their lives

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School board says farewell to this year’s student leaders

Monday was the night of the student at the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s school board meeting, where…

Senate President Gary Stevens, a Kodiak Republican, confers with other senators and legislative staff moments before gavelling in the start of this year’s legislative session at the Alaska State Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (Mark Sabbatini / Juneau Empire)

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Senate’s draft operating budget includes outstanding KPBSD pandemic relief funds

Public education advocates, students and staff have doggedly lobbied lawmakers for an increase to the state’s K-12 funding…

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Commencement season commences

Lower Kenai Peninsula schools will host graduation ceremonies May 13-16

Kenai Peninsula Education Association President LaDawn Druce speaks in support of borough and school district budget collaboration during a borough assembly meeting on Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Assembly sets school funding floor

The roughly $56.2 million amount is less than the $58.2 million requested last month but is more than…

From front left, Connections Homeschool Principal Doug Hayman, Kenai Peninsula Borough Mayor Peter Micciche and KPBSD Superintendent Clayton Holland listen to families during a community conversation on Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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Senate committee hears correspondence school allotment bill

A superior court judge ruled earlier this month that the allotments are unconstitutional

Homer High School sophomore Sierra Mullikin, center, one of the students who participated in the community walk-in on Wednesday April 24, 2024, holds a sign in front of Homer High School in Homer, Alaska. Communities across the state of Alaska held walk-ins in support of legislative funding for public education. (Photo by Emilie Springer/Homer News)

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Homer community ‘walks in’ to support education funding

The protest called for an increase to the BSA and legislative support for public education

Oliver Trobaugh speaks to representatives of Bear Creek Volunteer Fire Department during Career Day at Seward High School in Seward on Wednesday. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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Seward students explore future ambitions at Career Day

Seward High School hosted roughly two dozen Kenai Peninsula businesses Wednesday, April 24, for the second annual Career…

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Students of Soldotna High School stage a walkout in protest of the veto of Senate Bill 140 in front of their school in Soldotna, Alaska, on Wednesday, April 17, 2024.

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SoHi students walk out for school funding

The protest was in response to the veto of an education bill that would have increased school funding

Kenai Peninsula Education Association President LaDawn Druce (left) and committee Chair Jason Tauriainen (right) participate in the first meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s Four Day School Week Ad Hoc Committee on Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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4-day school week committee talks purpose of potential change, possible calendar

The change could help curb costs on things like substitutes, according to district estimates

School board member Kelley Cizek, right, speaks as members Jason Tauriainen, Patti Truesdell and Penny Vadla listen during a special meeting of the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s School Board in Soldotna, Alaska, on Monday, April 15, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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‘They deserve better than this’

School board passes budget with broad swath of cuts, including pools, theaters and some support staff

Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendent Clayton Holland responds to questions during a joint worksession of the School Board and Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly in Soldotna, Alaska, on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (Jake Dye/Peninsula Clarion)

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District budgets for ‘worst-case scenario’, assumes no increase in state funding

‘This is all we can depend on’