The Alaska State Board of Education met yesterday and is meeting today to discuss new implementations of legislation for school districts passed last session.
Pegge Erkeneff with the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District said that the “new” math regulations talked about won’t change anything locally.
Erkeneff: “The KPBSD has already been requiring three math credits for a very long time, at least more than 10-15 years so there’s nothing new that will be added in the math area as far as credits for a requirement to graduate for our students.”
Another topic the Board of Education is addressing are new ways of having to restrain children if schools must do so.
Erkeneff said the KPBSD school board officially adopted those rules based on House Bill 210 in this weeks board meeting.
Erkeneff: “We do train selected staff members from every single one of our schools each year about how to effectively deescalate students and safely restrain students if that ever becomes necessary. And I think one of the changes and one of the things that’s really important in here is that it’s only for the safety of the student if there’s imminent danger or for the safety of other students that a student would ever be physically restrained.”