Coats and artwork line the hallway in Boreal Sun Charter School in Fairbanks on April 22, 2024. (Photo by Claire Stremple/Alaska Beacon)
School districts across the state are starting to issue notices to teachers and staff that they may be laid off, in what has become a difficult spring tradition in Alaska, as legislators debate how much the state will allocate to education funding next school year.
The Kenai Peninsula School District is among those districts, issuing notices for 160 teachers and staff starting this week, Superintendent Clayton Holland told lawmakers on Monday…