Rachel Blakeslee

Anchorage School Board backs public school scholarship groups under new tax credit

Anchorage schools model a $9 million budget gap for fiscal 2028

Anchorage officials fail to agree on shared school-closure committee

Spend $3 million on students now, or save it for next year's hole

Anchorage school district proposes splitting $32 million in one-time state money

Anchorage band teacher tells school board he now teaches 330 students a day

Mat-Su assembly member puts possible school closures on Sept. 8 joint agenda

“I do not support a world in which the assembly is choosing what schools are being closed.”

Anchorage's school board says closures won't fix the budget; residents aren't so sure

“many seem to believe that school closures are the thing that will solve these massive budget deficits that we've faced year after year”

Anchorage will ship contaminated concrete to Oregon after the state tightened disposal rules, adding $850,000

“So while there aren't landfills to dispose of the PCBs, you could have a much cheaper option by leaving it in place, capping it, and burying it.”

The Anchorage School Board pledges no more closures next year, but one member says the last three were never explained

Anchorage School District adopts a single English curriculum for grades 6 through 10

An Anchorage board member proposes a one-year pause on school closures

Anchorage board won't reopen a school it may not have fully closed

“it sounds like we don't know— we don't know if the school is legally, technically closed, but that's something that— because the paperwork hasn't been submitted to DEED because we haven't reached the fall, so that's something that legal needs to vet.”

Anchorage School Board balks at a $2.8M curriculum buy members hadn't seen

“the curriculum piece threw me by surprise. It— I feel a little bit blindsided by it because it's a very large dollar amount that I think I'm seeing for the first time.”

Anchorage School Board adopts class size policy under state mandate

ASD claims state funding bill comes too late

Seven Western Alaska typhoon evacuees graduate from Anchorage schools