As we get closer to our target date, we are focused on helping those students struggling the hardest to walk the graduation stage. We know…
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I remember a time when neighbors and communities would lock arms to tackle a cause. A time when young folks who didn’t always have the…
It is the season of giving and small businesses around Anchorage have gotten in the spirit for Lake Hood’s Community PLUS Schools Adventure Club.Alaska Escape Rooms, Get Air, Alaska…
Ten hours a day, four days a week, Pedro Aviles makes his living by going the extra mile.It’s still a shorter trip than many of…
In Anchorage, we all breathed a collective sigh of relief in August when the news media described the likely beginning of economic recovery. Job losses…
The sound of laughter floated down the hallway at Airport Heights Elementary. In the classroom kitchen, Community PLUS Schools students were participating in cooking club.…
What do a book a month and 1 million new neural connections per second have in common?They both propel a child toward high school graduation…
In 2005, the Anchorage High School graduation rate was 59 percent. Since then, the aim of 90% Graduation by 2020 has been to raise and sustain the…
Last Friday was a great example of what it means to Live United. Students, public officials, parents, employees and teachers banded together to write messages…
Coming from a single-parent home in Anchorage and having three siblings in school at the same time, I remember a handful of years when back…