Kenai Peninsula Borough School District

For both the teachers’ union and the support staff union, the district is proposing a three year contract that includes a 2.5% pay raise the first year and a 1% pay raise for each of the next two years. That’s less than what the two unions asked for.

Incumbent candidate Patti Truesdell is running for the seat, alongside Donna Anderson and Shelby Oden.

Kenai Peninsula students consistently score higher on standardized tests than the statewide average. But a majority are not considered proficient.

When considering which schools to close, Superintendent Clayton Holland says the 12-person committee will consider building conditions and deferred maintenance, potential cost savings and larger regional impacts.

School board members Monday OK’d $1.83 million worth of spending – more than half of the roughly $3 million the district received because of the veto override.

Now, students may apply to serve on the council or a commission even if they don’t live in the city of Kenai. But they must go to school in Kenai. The city will now also consider sophomores, in addition to juniors and seniors.

The data center Murkowski and Trusty toured is a sort-of nerve center for the school district. It complements school-based servers by enabling the district to offer services more efficiently at one location instead of having to duplicate services at every site.

Thousands of students returned to Kenai Peninsula Borough School District classrooms Wednesday for the first day of the new school year.

The Alaska Legislature on Saturday overrode Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s partial veto of education money lawmakers approved last session.

Prosecutors say the abuse occurred over multiple years, starting in 2013 when the student was 14 years old.