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Cut short by pandemic, school planners resume their search for strategies to improve education in Sitka

Without action from legislature, Sitka's schools could lose 15 teaching positions next year

Alaska is one of the few states that doesn’t appropriate money for education until after most districts have prepared their budgets for next year.

Without action from legislature, Sitka's schools could lose 15 teaching positions next year

For Sitka's schools, a 'smart start' in January may mean controlling viral spread in class

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 photo) Sitka’s schools are on holiday break, and whether they reopen for in-person learning on January 4 remains a question mark.