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New superintendent negotiates three-year contract Posted by Katherine Rose | Mar 8, 2021 The Sitka School District has locked its new superintendent into a three-year contract. In late February, the Sitka School Board met with Frank Hauser to negotiate behind closed doors. According to a district press release, they finalized the contract with a $140,000 starting salary. Hauser is the principal of Service High School in Anchorage, and he brings 23 years of education experience to the job. In February, he was chosen from three finalists to lead Sitka’s schools, replacing interim Superintende...

Service High principal Frank Hauser named to lead Sitka School District Posted by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Feb 22, 2021 Frank Hauser speaking to the Sitka School board during his job interview on February 19. Hauser was selected in part because of his “experience and willingness to be culturally responsive,” said Sitka School Board president Amy Morrison. (SSD screen capture) Frank Hauser has been named as the next superintendent of the Sitka School District. Hauser is currently the principal of Service High School in Anchorage. The Sitka School Board met in executive session on Saturday mo...

Four finalists to interview for Sitka schools superintendent Posted by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Feb 8, 2021 UPDATE, 2-9-21: The Sitka School Board will host a Virtual Town Hall with the finalists 5-6:15 p.m. Friday, February 12. Questions must be submitted in advance to ttullis@aasb.org by noon Thursday, February 11. For more details and a link, visit the Sitka School District website. Original story: Four finalists have been named in the search for the next full-time superintendent of the Sitka School District, with a winner to be selected by the end of the month. The Sitka School Board made t...

Posted by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Jan 15, 2021 According to interim Superintendent John Holst, around a dozen of Sitka’s senior teachers are eligible for early retirement, sevreral of whom work a the high school. (KCAW file photo) The Sitka School District is considering an early retirement incentive for teachers, as a way of helping make ends meet next year. At its last meeting earlier this month (1-6-21), the Sitka School Board authorized the interim superintendent to open negotiations with the local teachers union. Early retirement is a tool that has been used before by the Sitka School D...

Posted by Robert Woolsey, KCAW | Dec 21, 2020 Sitka High ESL teacher Betty Richter’s technical writing class demonstrates social distancing technique. Although schools are an easy place to spread disease, the district says tough mitigation measures have resulted in no detectable spread of COVID-19 in schools. “The 10 or 11 times we’ve had a positive case at a building where people were in person,” said special education director Chris Voron, “we followed a mitigation plan and there’s been no documented transmission that public health can detect in our contact tracing.”  (SHS ph...