Education

Parents in an Alaska city have called for a return to classrooms after a high failure rate among students while school buildings were closed by the coronavirus pandemic.

The free public Science for Alaska lecture series hosted by the Univeristy of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute will run over the course of the next 6 weeks, with a new lecture taking place at 7:00PM every Tuesday. The first in the series is “Going with the floe: A year adrift in the Arctic ice pack”, by Sea Ice Geophysicist Melinda Webster, who recently returned from the largest and most extensive Arctic expedition ever undertaken, MOSAiC.

The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District sent out a press release Thursday evening outlining the proposed budget for the 2021-22 school year.

Ron Arnold, a retired teacher working as a behavior aide at North Pole Elementary School, is suing the Fairbanks School District and the Board of Education in an effort to close schools until the case rates for COVID-19 in Fairbanks drop below the CDC’s 'red zone'.

North Pole Elementary has asked that all students remain at home and attend remotely today only, due to a potential Covid-19 outbreak.

As students star returning to in-person education throughout the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District, Alaska health officials say they are considering bumping up teachers on the state’s vaccine list.

The University of Alaska Fairbanks will host 3 free educational presentations on Interior Alaska air quality every Wednesday for the next three weeks.

ESSA and FEA are to meet with FNSB School District on Friday for negotiations.

With schools slated to reopen this month, the Fairbanks School Board held an executive session on Monday, January 11, to discuss a renegotiation of contract safety articles with the Education Support Staff Association and the Fairbanks Education Association.

The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District School Board held a special meeting in order to respond to two letters from Education Associations ESSA, and FEA.