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    Kenai Peninsula Borough School District
    Graduates listen to Connections Homeschool Principal Doug Hayman speak during the school’s commencement ceremony on Thursday in Soldotna. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
Graduates listen to Connections Homeschool Principal Doug Hayman speak during the school’s commencement ceremony on Thursday, May 16, 2024 in Soldotna, Alaska. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)
    ‘Expect a lot from yourself and from others’
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • May 21, 2024 2:30 am

    Connections Homeschool students accept diplomas at commencement ceremony

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    Seniors from Voznesenka and Kachemak Selo prepare to enter the graduation ceremony at Land’s End Resort, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Homer, Alaska. (Emilie Springer/Homer News)
    Head of the Bay schools hold 2024 graduation...
    By Emilie Springer • May 21, 2024 1:30 am

    Voznesenka and Kachemak Selo celebrated graduates at Land’s End Resort

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    (from left to right) Jachin Sanchez, Carter Lemons, Rowan Mahoney, Adelyn McCorison and Taylor Rickard graduated from Ninilchik School on Monday, May 13, 2024 in Ninilchik, Alaska. Photo provided by Mattea Peters-Williamson
    Ninilchik graduates 5 in 2024 commencement
    By Delcenia Cosman • May 21, 2024 1:30 am

    The school held the ceremony Monday, May 13

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    Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion
The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District’s grant application for funds to support summer reading programs, along with other reading intervention documents, are splayed on a desk in the Peninsula Clarion offices on Monday, May 13, 2024 in Kenai, Alaska.
    School district preparing for new summer reading intervention...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • May 16, 2024 2:30 am

    Third graders who test well below benchmark on their end-of-year literacy assessment may either be held back or must receive additional intervention services

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Graduates of Seward High School leave the gym at the end of their graduation ceremony on Wednesday, May 15.
    Seward High School graduates 30
    By Jacob Dye • May 16, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    Emilie Springer/ Homer News
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)
    ‘You are the newest part of our legacy’
    By Emilie Springer • May 15, 2024 1:30 am

    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
    School board says farewell to this year’s student...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • May 8, 2024 2:30 am

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

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    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)
    Senate’s draft operating budget includes outstanding KPBSD pandemic...
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • May 8, 2024 2:30 am

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

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    Homer High School
    Commencement season commences
    By Homer News Staff • May 8, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    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)
    Assembly sets school funding floor
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • May 7, 2024 2:30 am

    The roughly $56.2 million amount is less than the $58.2 million requested last month but is more than what the borough gave the district last year

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    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)
    Senate committee hears correspondence school allotment bill
    By Ashlyn O'Hara • May 1, 2024 2:30 am

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

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    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)
    Homer community ‘walks in’ to support education funding
    By Emilie Springer • May 1, 2024 1:30 am

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

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    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)
    Seward students explore future ambitions at Career Day
    By Jacob Dye • May 1, 2024 1:30 am

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

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