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Educators express doubts about Covid plan at Anchorage School Board Meeting

Educators express doubts about Covid plan at Anchorage School Board Meeting

I wasn't going to write tonight, I swear. If you watched or listened to the Anchorage School District Board Meeting, you could hear the tension and frustration in the voices of teachers who testified about their concerns at the School Board meeting held virtually on September 22. Ben

Q&A With an Anchorage Educator

Q&A With an Anchorage Educator

I stumbled upon a huge social media thread where parents, teachers and Anchorage residents were having a mostly civil conversation about the Anchorage School District's plan to return children to the classroom. The overwhelming number of comments in that thread were from parents expressing concern about their children&

The Anchorage City School District Doesn't Have a Plan

The Anchorage City School District Doesn't Have a Plan

Alaska DHSS released the COVID-19 Alaska Weekly Case Update this morning and says that overall, new cases in Alaska are increasing. The daily state case rate as of September 12, 2020, is 8.7 cases per 100,000 people, averaged over the last 14 days. That's up from