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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2017School districts across the country received a letter from the U.S. Department of Education earlier this month, ordering administrators to remove any language or policies that focus on Diversity, Equity or Inclusion, also called DEI. The letter was sent late in the day on Friday, February 14. And it gave administrators two weeks to comply. Now, a day before the deadline, the impacts of the letter are being felt by school districts across Alaska. -
Ashlyn O'Hara/KDLLThe University of Alaska system strikes DEI language from its programs, job titles, websites.
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University of Alaska President, Pat Pitney gave her annual “State of the University” address Tuesday in Fairbanks. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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.
