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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.
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A letter from the U.S Department of Education says the state disproportionately reduced funding to three Alaska school districts when it received federal COVID-19 relief funds. That includes $5 million to KPBSD, which the feds say the state must make a plan to remedy.
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The agreements include a 3.5% raise for teachers and a 6% raise for support staff. The parties chose a one-year extension, rather than a normal three-year contract, because of uncertainties about education funding.
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Borough Maintenance Director Tom Nelson said just two months into the season, invoices for school district snow removal already totaled 54% of the full snow removal budget.
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Since it convened last Tuesday, the Alaska Legislature has considered an override of the governor’s 2023 education funding veto, and a bill containing a modest BSA increase. Kenai Peninsula residents weighed in on that bill, many saying the increase was not good enough to counter inflation and keep schools functioning.
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The K-12 Susan B. English School has experienced a major loss of staff and a decline in student enrollment this school year. Parents and the city government have called on the school district for stable staffing and better support for remote schools.
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Former high school teacher and union president Nathan Erfurth was charged with 61 counts related to sexual abuse of a minor in July. Yesterday, his attorney moved to dismiss the case, on the basis that troopers misrepresented evidence to a grand jury.