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Nikolaevsk School is photographed on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Nikolaevsk, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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State school board approves Nikolaevsk charter

The Alaska State Board of Education held a special meeting on Jan. 22.

Nikolaevsk School is photographed on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Nikolaevsk, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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School board approves initial Nikolaevsk charter application

The application will next be forwarded to the State Board of Education and Early Development for review.

Nikolaevsk School is photographed on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Nikolaevsk, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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School board continues consideration of Nikolaevsk charter school

The board reviewed the initial charter application on Oct. 20 and will hold another work session and a…

Lisa James holds up a book containing Nikolavesk History in the Nikolavesk School on Sunday, June 1, 2025, in Nikolavesk, Alaska. She said the book, along with trophies, photographs, and other school items will be boxed up and relocated to Homer Middle School upon Nikolavesk School’s closing on June 30. (Chloe Pleznac/Homer News)

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Nikolaevsk School prepares for June 30 closure

The school serves a primarily Russian Old Believer community located about 19 miles outside of Homer.

Nikolaevsk</span> School is photographed on Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Nikolaevsk, Alaska. (Delcenia Cosman/Homer News)

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‘We just need more time’

Nikolaevsk advocated keeping their school open during a KPBSD community meeting last week.

Community members gather in a building part of the Church of St. Nicholas, out of which a school cooperative runs, during a meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023 in Nikolaevsk, Alaska. In rear, cars are parked in front of a building that has been used this school year as a makeshift classroom for families who are part of a home-school cooperative. (Ashlyn O’Hara/Peninsula Clarion)

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School board rejects Nikolaevsk charter school application

Charter organizers say they plan to appeal that decision to the State of Alaska

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Nikolaevsk resident convicted of arson in 2017 fire

A Homer jury last week found a Nikolaevsk resident guilty of setting a 2017 fire that killed a…

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KPBSD students Lyndzi Gausin (Kenai Central High School), Morgan Carlson-Kelly (Nikolaevsk), Autumn Jones (Homer High School), Caitlin Eskelin (Soldotna High School) and Stephanie Huffer (Kenai Central High School) compete in national Educators Rising competition in Florida in June 2023.

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KPBSD students attend national Educators Rising conference

Alaska sent a large delegation of competitors to the 2023 Educators Rising conference in Orlando, Florida last month.…

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Students, kindergarten through ninth grades, check their growth pods Feb. 14 in the hydroponics room at Nikolaevsk School.

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Nikolaevsk hydroponics ends year strong

The first year of operation culminated in multiple harvests, hands-on lessons for students and fundraising events

Students’ individual growth pods are set up in the hydroponics room on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023 at Nikolaevsk School in Nikolaevsk, Alaska. Photo by Delcenia Cosman

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Nikolaevsk School starts grant-funded hydroponics program

Nikolaevsk School recently kick-started a student-run hydroponics program, funded by an $8,000 grant from national nonprofit organization Green…