On Feb. 8, Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a disaster declaration for the village of Tuluksak. The declaration comes nearly a month after a fire destroyed the
Medical Director Debra Cyphert said that Bethel Family Clinic’s 150 doses of the Pfizer vaccine are currently stored in an ultra-cold freezer at the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation. She said that the clinic’s doses of the vaccine are available to first responders and anyone 65 or older. At YKHC, COVID-19 vaccines are now available to anyone in the general population 16 years or older.
Bethel Family Clinic also began offering PCR tests for detecting COVID-19 with a 24 to 48 hour turnaround time a couple of weeks ago. Cyphert said that Bethel Family Clinic is sending out PCR test samples on the first available Alaska Airlines flight to BeechTree Labs, a private commercial lab in Anchorage.
BETHEL (AP) â Parents in an Alaska city have called for a return to classrooms after a high failure rate among students while school buildings were closed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Lower Kuskokwim School District in Bethel made public a report showing high school students failed 59% of their classes during the first semester, KYUK-AM reported.
Students did not submit enough work to receive grades in 36% to 52% of kindergarten through eighth-grade classes, the report said. I was shocked, during the school reports, about the high numbers of students that are not engaging at all in school, said Megan Newport, the parent of a student at the Ayaprun Elitnaurvik school.
Alaska parents call for class return after student failures
February 2, 2021 GMT
BETHEL, Alaska (AP) Parents in an Alaska city have called for a return to classrooms after a high failure rate among students while school buildings were closed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The Lower Kuskokwim School District in Bethel made public a report showing high school students failed 59% of their classes during the first semester, KYUK-AM reported.
Students did not submit enough work to receive grades in 36% to 52% of kindergarten through eighth-grade classes, the report said.
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“I was shocked, during the school reports, about the high numbers of students that are not engaging at all in school,” said Megan Newport, the parent of a student at the Ayaprun Elitnaurvik school.