Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District
The Board will consider a new Tribal Consultation policy in a first reading on November 12; it is a proposal, not an adopted policy.
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Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
At the December 3, 2025 board meeting, a district counselor testified that Houston Middle and Houston High School were sharing a single nurse, leaving office staff and counselors to cover nurse duties and describing an 18-minute ambulance response during a medical emergency. Eight months later, at the August 5, 2026 meeting, the superintendent reported the district is redesigning its school-nurse staffing model to sustain services, use resources wisely, and build a model that outlasts one-time funding.
Haines Borough School District
In July 2025 the board rejected the only bus bid it received — $310,000 a year for both routes, nearly double the district's $175,000 transportation budget — leaving Haines without a contracted bus company days before school started. A one-year lease from Haines Development covered 2025-26 as a stopgap. On April 7, 2026 the board picked First Student through a formal bid process, and by June 2026 signed a 5-year contract combining the highway and Mud Bay/town routes into one run, with the district paying fuel directly and costs rising a scheduled 3% a year.
The board changed its absence policy (BP 5113) so students can take excused days for subsistence activities. Families must say exactly what the activity is. Approved on second reading June 2, 2026.
Fairbanks North Star Borough School District
The district surveyed families, students, and staff on a possible later school-day start time and reported results to the board on June 2, 2026 (4,917 responses). About half of respondents preferred keeping current start times; high school students were the group most in favor of a later start. The district confirmed there will be no start-time change for the 2026-27 school year, and no board decision has been made.
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