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Just after midnight this morning, the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board voted to close Ben Eielson Junior/Senior High School. They postponed voting on the closure of other schools to instead focus on the budget. The board resumes meeting tonight.
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School closures were the focus of a Monday night worksession for the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Board of Education. Members heard about the closures of Ben Eielson Jr./Senior High School and Ticasuk Brown Elementary school, as well as the possibility of closing two more elementary schools.
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More Alaska school administrators spoke out Wednesday against Governor Mike Dunleavy’s deep cuts into education funding that lawmakers passed earlier this year.
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After more than a year of negotiating, the teachers’ union and the support staff union in Fairbanks have not worked out a contract with the local school district. They plan to picket near the intersection of University Avenue and the Johansen Expressway tomorrow afternoon. Both unions will enter Arbitration with the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in August.
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A group of University of Alaska graduate student workers trying to form a union marched on the UAF campus Friday. They’re following a nationwide trend of student workers organizing.
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The Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Board of Education passed a $222,873,000 budget Wednesday night – about 15.3 million dollars less than last year’s spending. The recommendation includes about a $56 million ask from local taxpayers. The budget goes now to the borough assembly for approval.
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A sound artist who makes music from the natural world is in residency this week at University of Alaska Fairbanks. Alaska composer Matthew Burtner gave a workshop this afternoon, that brought together science and music. He will join Fairbanks musicians for a community concert Thursday evening.
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University of Alaska President, Pat Pitney gave her annual “State of the University” address Tuesday in Fairbanks.
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The Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board is hosting the public to meet the candidates and make comments today about each on the search website. The board may announce their choice as early as Saturday afternoon.
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Teachers and school support staff in Fairbanks are still working without union contracts. Negotiations between the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District with both the Fairbanks Education Association, FEA, and the Education Support Staff Association, ESSA have stalled and neutral, third-party negotiator will try to move talks forward.
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A number of Alaska State Troopers spent the day at West Valley High School Thursday in response to a student making a threatening statement the day before.
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Fairbanks North Star Borough School District officials say a West Valley High School student made a threatening statement Wednesday, and they say the district and Alaska State Troopers took what they call “appropriate actions” in response to the threat.