Kenai Peninsula Borough Schools

Dozens of students oohed and aahed on a cold morning in Anchor Point as biologists spawned a pair of coho salmon and fertilized their eggs. It was the first lesson in the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s annual “Salmon in the Classroom” program, which teaches Kenai Peninsula students about salmon biology in their classrooms throughout the school year.

In response to concerns about culture, transportation and enrollment, among others, parents of the small Kenai Peninsula community say they’d like to see a charter school up and running next fall. But the district says they're too late.

Homer area schools were under a soft lockdown Tuesday following the threat of a school shooting, according to the Homer Police Department.Around 8 a.m. Tuesday, the Anchorage FBI told police that a 16-year-old Homer teenager posted on TikTok that he was going to shoot up a school and be the “next serial killer,” according to a statement from police. The specific school under threat was not identified.

Kenai Peninsula College is dedicating its anthropology lab to Dr. Alan Boraas — the beloved, long-time anthropology professor who died in 2019 at the age of 72.

Kenai Peninsula Borough voters will weigh in on two boroughwide bonds this October, for upgrades to a dozen schools and for a new emergency services building in Soldotna.

Funding for Alaska’s schools is always in flux. Questions of budget cuts and school consolidation are never off the table, even for the state’s biggest districts.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed guidance related to COVID-19 on Aug. 11, and the Lower Kenai Peninsula followed suit, despite maintaining a high alert status.

School starts tomorrow in the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District. Students are returning to school for the third school year affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, many COVID mitigation protocols that have existed in the past will not be in place, but the district is still encouraging students to be responsible.

An anonymous source inside the Kenai Peninsula Borough says the borough mayor is “strong-arming” the school district and area hospitals over Covid-19…

Thursday afternoon, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District announced an updated Covid-19 mitigation plan. While not mandating the use of masks among…