An email-writing effort to convince education leaders to unmask school children is underway along with a counter effort to maintain mask wearing.
The Board of Education also has heard from people calling for mandatory diversity, equity and inclusion training at the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District after a Lathrop High School teacher made comments about race and police brutality that spurred complaints.
The board, at its regular meeting Tuesday, additionally saw a couple of parents call out the Waldorf-inspired Boreal Sun Charter School for racist comments made about 100 years ago by the European founder of the Waldorf education method. Public education leaders renewed a contract with the charter school, and asked for a diversity report later this year.