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The Ketchikan School Board on Wednesday evening will consider eight teaching contracts for positions at Schoenbar Middle School, Ketchikan Charter School, Houghtaling Elementary School and Ketchikan High School.
The Ketchikan School Board is set to meet on Wednesday evening to hear the latest information from the acting superintendent about the Ketchikan School District s COVID-19 risk level assignments.
A COVID-19 outbreak in the community two weeks ago led to a surge in cases last week, many connected to students and staff at Ketchikan High School.
The district closed Kayhi to in-person instruction last week, but at the board s direction did not close other secondary schools in the district.
At the conclusion of an emergency board meeting last Wednesday, the board directed Acting Superintendent Katie Parrott to set Smart Start coronavirus risk levels for individual schools, rather than using one metric for the entire district.
Five local students competed in the 2021 Alaska State Spelling Bee late last month.
According to information from the Alaska Spelling Bee organization, 88 students in grades three through eight qualified for the state-level competition.
The bee s first place winner was Ishita Khiani, a seventh-grader at Dzantik i Heeni Middle School in Juneau.
The Ketchikan School District was represented by Thierry Oyedeji, a Houghtaling Elementary fourth-grader; Sarah Reynolds, a Fawn Mountain Elementary fifth-grader; Bella Wills, a Tongass School of Arts and Sciences fifth-grader; Alijhan Millendez, a Ketchikan Charter School fifth-grader; and Riley Saxton, a Point Higgins Elementary sixth-grader.
Those students all won their classroom-level and school-level spelling bees earlier this year, and then competed against each other in the district-wide bee in early March.
 The Ketchikan School Board approved all items on its agenda at its regular meeting on Wednesday night with no opposition, and did not take any actions after discussing the Ketchikan School Districtâs budget priorities.
Prior to the budget discussion, Acting Superintendent Katie Parrott presented the board with the results of the districtâs budget survey as part of her superintendentâs report. No members of the board asked questions of Parrott at the end of the presentation.
The two items of new business on the agenda offered a quick change of topic. Board members unanimously approved an updated Memorandum of Agreement between the district and its two charter schools, Ketchikan Charter School and the Tongass School of Arts and Sciences, then approved a contract extension with district psychologist Brian Adams.