The Juneau School District Board of Education approved $230,000 to bring back the program for this school year.

The proposal is part of the university’s wave of language changes to preserve federal funding during the Trump administration.

The effort to keep schools safe from mass shooters has ballooned into a multibillion-dollar industry. Companies are selling school districts assurance with high-tech products.

The flat test scores come as policymakers debate ways to improve Alaska's struggling schools.

The Federal Communications Commission supervises a program called E-Rate, which helps schools and libraries get affordable broadband.

The Trump administration is using decades-old laws, meant to prevent discrimination, to threaten school districts and states with cuts to vital federal funding.

For the first time in years, students in Napakiak are at school under the same roof, in a school building that's safe from the encroaching erosion of the Kuskokwim River.

The blaze last summer consumed the Bering Strait School District campus and left the school without classrooms, a gym or a cafeteria.

Lingít weaver Sydney Akagi quit her job to learn traditional designs, becoming the Native artist resident at Sitka's Sheldon Jackson Museum and teaching a workshop.

The new task force is scheduled to offer recommendations on education funding and policy before the 35th Legislature convenes in 2027.

The district plans to spend $3.5 million on hiring 27 more teachers and $2 million on improving teacher recruitment and retention.

Jurors found Nathaniel Erfurth, 37, guilty on 28 counts in the case. He faces presumptive prison time of five to 15 years per count.