Abbott Loop Elementary News Today

District staff hope to improve the process from the last time a school closed in 2022.

As kids in Anchorage are counting down the days until winter break, district officials are busy counting dollar signs or a lack thereof.

The Anchorage School Board on Tuesday approved the charter school’s move into the building to be vacated when the elementary closes. The charter school is currently confined to a high school wing.

The Anchorage School Board is set to vote on a proposal that would move the K-8 charter school into the building that houses Abbott Loop Elementary, which is closing at the end of this school year.

Alaska’s share of youth has shrunk and its retirement-age population has grown sharply, opposing factors that are reducing the state’s workforce and complicating the pandemic-related labor shortage, state experts say. Alaska economists touched on the diverging demographic trends in an annual jobs forecast released by the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

Update, Jan. 14: The Anchorage School District will offer testing at Tyson Elementary instead of Fairview Elementary as one of its five walk-up COVID-19 testing sites that offer results in 24 hours for staff and students. The Anchorage School District is standing up COVID-19 testing sites in partnership with the Anchorage Health Department. There will be pop-up testing in parking lots at 11 schools on a scheduled basis. The testing is free and for the general public. It will be offered from ...