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Teachers and community members held “walk-ins” across the school district Wednesday morning, gathering outside schools in support of funding public education before going about a regular school day.
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About 32% of students statewide, and about 37% Kenai Peninsula students, are considered proficient in English and math by this year's AK STAR assessments. But administrators say the data won't be helpful for setting educational targets until next year, when schools have two years of baseline testing data.
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Hundreds of students protested outside the high school Wednesday morning, chanting for a raise in the Base Student Allocation.
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The budget — which uses 100% of the district's unrestricted fund balance and still includes $7.8 million in cuts to staff and programs — was approved in an 8-1 vote Monday.
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Borough Mayor Peter Micciche said he has been in talks with state officials about solutions and funding for a long-sought school building project in the South Peninsula community of Kachemak-Selo.
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In a board meeting Monday and joint session with the Borough Assembly Tuesday, school board members continued to discuss a tentative budget that accounts for no increased funding from the state. “We’re hopeful that this isn’t the budget that’s gonna last,” Board Vice President Jason Tauriainen said.
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The legislature failed to override Gov. Dunleavy's veto of a $680 per-student funding increase by just one vote. The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will now craft a budget with no legislative funding increase in advance of a May 1 deadline to present a balanced budget.
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Two Kenai Peninsula Borough School District employees were recently nominated for National Life Group’s LifeChanger of the Year award, which recognizes and awards outstanding K-12 educators and employees. One of this year's nominees is Ryan Kocher, head custodian at Seward High School.
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Kachemak Selo has been waiting on a new school for more than a decade, and in 2016 the school district received millions in DEED grant money to do that. On Tuesday, the Borough Assembly voted to transfer that grant to the state's Department of Commerce to remove match and design requirements.
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The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District will host its second annual virtual Indigenous Language Film Festival this Thursday. Sixteen student-made films will highlight the Sugt’stun language and two dialects of the Dena’ina language.