ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program is currently hosting 47 middle school students from more than 20 schools in the Kenai Peninsula Borough and Lower Kuskokwim school districts for its February Middle School Academy at the University of Alaska Anchorage. During the two-week component, students live like college students while participating in […]
A Fairbanks teen was arrested on terroristic threatening charges by troopers on Thursday following a call-in from school staff at West Valley High School at 9:48 am, the trooper dispatch reported. The call-in was the result of school staff finding a threat on a student’s Twitter account. It was discovered that 19-year-old Nickholas Palacio had […]
A 24-year-old Chattanooga, Tennessee bus driver, Johnthony Walker, has been arrested and charged with five counts of vehicular homicide after an accident that took the lives of at least five elementary school children on Monday, Chattanooga Police Chief Fred Fletcher said in a late night press conference. According to the Chattanooga police, Walker was traveling “well above […]
Anchorage — Representative Geran Tarr (D-Anchorage) will host a “Restorative Justice Summit” in Anchorage on December 2nd and 3rd. The goal of the summit is to outline new techniques that educators can use to mitigate the number of students disciplined for misbehavior in Alaska’s public schools. The restorative justice blueprint is based on promoting academic […]