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At its regular meeting on Thursday, the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly will be voting on whether to provide $11.96 million to the Kodiak Island Borough School District to help fund

Sandy Daws, the chief financial officer of the Kodiak Island Borough School District, presented the district’s preliminary budget for fiscal year 2023 to the Board of Education on Monday. The

A high-level budget discussion took place at the Kodiak Island Borough School District Board of Education retreat Saturday, with Superintendent Larry LeDoux providing context based on historical data.

A survey of 401 high school and middle school students and 387 parents, employees and community members generated a response on potential uses for COVID-19 money allocated to the Kodiak Island Borough School District, according to Superintendent Larry LeDoux. LeDoux and Board of Education clerk Bianca Clark provided the update at Mondays work session, noting the survey had yielded thousands of answers from the hundreds of participants.  “The district has received money under what I call...

Gov. Mike Dunleavy released his proposed budget for the state on Dec. 11. The Kodiak Island Borough has started broad conversations. And the Kodiak Island Borough School District has begun to talk about what its budget will look like for Fiscal Year 2022.  It’s early, so there are plenty of unknowns. The district doesn’t know how much it will get from the borough or the state, how much insurance will cost, or how much money will be left over from this year, if any.  “This b...