Fairbanks North Star Borough School District Chief School Administrator Karen Melin provided an update on various issues facing the district.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska - In February, the Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board voted to close Joy, Anderson and Nordale Elementary Schools, repurposing the latter for various district programs.
After experiencing a shortage of drivers for much of the school year, the district has fully restored 82 bus routes. “Getting bus drivers has been a historic challenge,” Melin said. “For us to be able to get new drivers in our current reality, I think, is very encouraging.” While Melin acknowledges this is a painful thing for some community families, she says this is one among many difficult fiscal decisions that need to be made.
Staff absences required district employees to cover for each other, even members of the school district administration. “We deployed people from this building out to fill in in places where they were just really struggling to cover all of the spots,” Melin continued. “I got to go to a kindergarten class during that really difficult time.”
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