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Oct 27
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GOP vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin spent more than $51,000 in taxpayer funds to remodel the governor’s Anchorage office suite and spruce up her mansion and office in Juneau, a Herald review of expense records shows.
Palin spent most of the funds, $45,137, in April to build and furnish three offices inside her suite at the [...]
Oct 21
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As both the election buzz and economic worries grow, parents and schools still concentrate on their number one priority: the healthy, positive development of their children.
To recognize their outstanding (and pretty creative) efforts, National PTA is awarding 22 local PTA schools with grants of up to $1,000 in honor of PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month, November.
These [...]
Oct 20
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After 25 years with the Anchorage, Alaska, Police Department, Gary Apperson wanted to teach.
But Apperson wasn’t qualified to teach accredited criminal-justice courses at the university level. So he decided to go back to college.
After countless hours of researching distance education, he enrolled in the Masters of Science in Criminal Justice program at the University of [...]
Oct 17
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American Sentinel, an accredited online University, announced their winners of Project Working Mom. Nine women are the recipients of full-tuition scholarships to attend American Sentinel to advance their education with a bachelor’s or master’s degree. The winners were selected from thousands of applicants because of sacrifice and determination in the pursuit of attaining their [...]
Sep 23
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The Anchorage School District is kicking off the school year with a new addition to teaching and grading writing: Vantage Learning’s MY Access!®. The school district has incorporated the program in their curriculum for 6,450 of its students for the 2008-09 school year. To ensure teachers have full working knowledge of MY Access!, they participated [...]