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The new teacher contract for Fairbanks North Star Borough School District has cleared its final hurdle after the school board voted Tuesday unanimously in favor.

The new teacher contract for Fairbanks North Star Borough School District has cleared its final hurdle after the school board voted Tuesday unanimously in favor.

Teachers and school support staff in Fairbanks are still working without union contracts. Negotiations between the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District with both the Fairbanks Education Association, FEA, and the Education Support Staff Association, ESSA have stalled and neutral, third-party negotiator will try to move talks forward.

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Sandi Ryan, 69, is a lifelong reader. She reads mysteries, non-fiction biographies, political histories and, on the days she volunteers to proofread Braille translations at the Iowa Library for the Blind and Print Disabled, she reads a bit of everything. Ryan, whose eyes were removed to treat a rare early childhood cancer called retinoblastoma, has been a patron of the library for nearly 60 years. When she was 10, her mom discovered the library’s services and they regularly ordered audiobo...

A Lathrop High School teacher was recorded during an online class last week while offering a candid opinion about high profile police shootings, including the murder of George Floyd by a policeman, and telling students that it would be better to comply with law enforcement officers than to run or fight. The teacher said that police departments need to do a better job of weeding out bad officers. She told students that some perpetrators of violence are non-white. She called people who wear their...

Credit Fairbanks Education Association The associations that represent Fairbanks-area teachers, principals and support staff released a statement Friday opposing the opening of schools in January. The Board of Education for the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District voted a week ago to give students the option to return to in-person learning for the second semester. The board’s plan does not require schools to absolutely follow the CDC’s COVID-19 or the state of Alaska’s Smart Sta...

Several school board members pressed for expanding school building access as education leaders met virtually Tuesday to discuss plans for 2021. Under one scenario, schools would open to in-person classes to all who wish to attend five days a week starting Jan. 19. “Open the doggone schools,” school board member Matthew Sampson said. “Let the kids in and staff return who so choose to do so.” A special meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday for a school board vote. Other plans...