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At least a dozen school districts across Alaska received bomb threats emailed to them Tuesday, including those in Anchorage, Dillingham and Delta Junction.
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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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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.