Education

  Our guests this week are mental health professionalss who specialize in helping Kodiak children in the schools: Susan Philo, a clinician at Providence Kodiak Island Hospital who is the Team lead for the school district’s clinician program, and Kris Foster, the clinician at the Middle School.   We talk about many things related to the mental health of Koodiak’s …

Jessica Paugh is expected to fit in well and has many of the specific qualifications needed to lead the college, said Interim Director Betty Walters. University of Alaska Anchorage Chancellor Cathy Sandeen, said she looked forward to Paugh joining Kodiak College this summer.   The newly hired director of Kodiak College has a lot of the specifics that a person …

The final of three community meet-and-greets will be held at the college this evening. The college is hosting the three finalists for the position of Kodiak College Director as it works to hire and get a new person onboard this summer. “Absolutely. And typically the contractual year for a person in administration would be July 1.” That’s Betty Walters, the …

Kodiak Island Borough School District is facing uncertainty until the legislature passes the final budget. Governor Dunleavy’s proposed budget would cut more than $5 million from the KIBSD budget. The Kodiak Island Borough Building. (Photo by Kayla Desroches/KMXT) Kodiak Island Borough School District is facing deep uncertainties in the process of budgeting for the upcoming fiscal year. The governor’s proposed …

The House Finance Committee voted this month for a budget amendment to end school bond debt reimbursement. For Kodiak Island Borough, that could potentially mean property tax hikes of about 37 percent. The bonds that helped pay for construction of Kodiak High School are at risk of losing state reimbursement. (Photo by Kavitha George) The recent House Finance Committee vote …