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Funding and staffing emerge as challenges for Anchorage School District’s planned career academies
As the Anchorage School District prepares to launch a major curriculum change for high school students beginning next year, administrators say they’re unsure how they plan to fund and staff for the proposed career track initiative. Earlier this fall, the district announced that it planned to launch an ambitious initiative next school year beginning with a freshman seminar that would require all ninth grade students to spend one designated class period per day exploring career possibilities and their own skills and interests. Then in fall 2025, sophomore students would choose...