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Decision will become a ‘hot-button legislative item’ in final weeks of session, lawmakers say.
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Bethel high school students walked out of classes on Thursday, April 4, joining students from around the state in protesting what they call “the Alaska Legislature’s failure to fund our schools.”
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Dunleavy has to sign or veto the bill by March 14 or it becomes law without his signature.
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Students from the district representing Bethel, Newtok, Tuntutuliak, and Quinhagak gathered in Bethel on Feb. 23 to present experiments at the annual science fair.
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Three members representing areas off the road system voted against a key procedural question, throwing the future of the bill into limbo.
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Lower Kuskokwim School District Board members voted on Feb. 13 to appoint Andrew Anderson to take over the superintendent position after the current superintendent, Kimberly Hankins, retires.
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Gladys Jung Elementary School student Kamerynn Foss won this year's LKSD Spelling Bee. Next, she'll aim for the state competition in March.
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Current superintendent Kimberly Hankins is retiring this summer, after over 20 years with the district. All three finalists have administrative experience in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
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LKSD Superintendent Kimberly Hankins is retiring, and the board is looking for the right replacementLKSD’s most agreed-upon goal is to find someone to fill the superintendent role that has experience and willingness to be responsive to cultures, especially Alaska Native cultures, and who will be supportive of Native tradition and the Yup’ik and Cup’ik languages.
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Eleven teams of students traveled to Bethel recently for the FIRST Lego League Robotics competition. The students, all between the fourth and eighth grades, built Lego robots following this year’s theme of art and masterpiece.
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This fall, kindergarten through third grade students across the state took the first literacy screener for the Alaska Reads Act. The district’s new scores showed a wide range, but most students will need additional targeted support.
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More than a dozen people were gathered on the roof of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation hospital to watch a drone take off on Saturday, Sept. 23. In theory, when that drone later returned it could have been carrying anything from medicine to medical supplies from a nearby warehouse.