Blatchley principal highlights importance of attendance
Blatchley Middle School principal Ben White joins KCAW's Peter Apathy to discuss why attendance matters.
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Sitka school superintendent search delayed a week, to explore a possible interim hire
The Sitka School Board will delay starting a search for a new superintendent for a week, to see if a good interim candidate turns up.
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After a year of heating problems, Sitka’s middle schoolers return to class in a warm building
Sitka's Blatchley Middle School has been without reliable heat for a full year. The installation of new heat pumps kept kids at home for four full school days Dec 1-6, but principal Ben White says the building is warming up nicely.
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With district cases at zero, parents and administrators voice support for covid precautions in Sitka schools
None of the hostility seen at local school board meetings across the country recently by anti-masking groups was apparent at the November 1 meeting of the Sitka School Board. With zero cases currently associated with the district, the tone was optimistic that mitigation measures were working, and that students were making up for time lost in the past year.
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Principals report: Sitka students chalk up 90-percent attendance at eSchool
Principals from all five of Sitka’s schools informed the Sitka School Board at its April 1st meeting that they were seeing over 90-percent of students attending class electronically -- and they hoped to do better, as more laptops were distributed to families that lacked computers at home.
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