ANCHORAGE, ALASKA – The Alaska Native Science & Engineering Program is partnering with the Northwest Arctic Borough School District to host 52 students from eight rural communities at its first Middle School Academy of the 2017-18 school year. Students arrived at the University of Alaska Anchorage campus this week, where they will live like college […]
Rep. Les Gara, and Facing Foster Care in Alaska founder, Amanda Metivier, have launched a Back To School drive to put laptops into the hands of Alaskan foster youth to aid with their school success, Les Gara announced. Gara and Metivier, both former foster youth, founded the Laptops for Foster Youth effort at the suggestion […]
Skauluq (N); Skuuluq (S) – School Naata guangkuta skaulurluta. – We should all go to school. Russian entrepreneur Gregorii Shelikhov established the first European-style school in the Kodiak region in the 1780s. Young boys taken hostage by Russian traders or enrolled in the school by their fathers learned to speak, read, and write in […]
Alaska State Troopers report that iPads stolen in a burglary of the Tok school have been recovered by troopers in Northway. At just before 6 pm on Tuesday, an employee at the Tok School reported that someone had entered the school and made off with 42 iPads. The value of the tablets was estimated at […]