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The school board for the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District worked past 11:00 p.m. last night and passed a regular budget combined with a second plan for spending pandemic relief funds for a total of $249,502,193. The plan includes secondary school librarians and five district-wide music teachers that were threatened with cuts.
Increased public funding for homeschooling is on the Fairbanks North Star Borough school board’s agenda tonight. At a worksession last night, school administrators said there is a lot of misunderstanding in the community about the spending.