Michael Robbins is the principal of a K-12 school in Toksook Bay, a coastal community of roughly 550 more than 100 miles southwest of Bethel in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Before that, he was a principal and special services director in Syracuse, New York. He says he has more than 25 years of experience in education.
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“It, to me is definitely insensitive. It brings out some historical trauma on how Native people have been treated in the past, and it’s concerning,” Metlakatla’s superintendent told KRBD. “Our students don’t deserve that.”
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KRBD spent some time with Ketchikan High School’s National Ocean Sciences Bowl teams this week as they prepared for this year’s competition. They’ll present their research papers in Seward this Friday.
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The candidates include principals from Arizona and Alaska, plus Ketchikan’s current interim superintendent.
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The school district’s current interim superintendent, Melissa Johnson, will be among the three administrators interviewed by the school board in a public videoconference on Monday.
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Previously, the district’s COVID-19 risk level was determined by the number of active COVID-19 cases in the community as a whole. But that metric will no longer be publicly available starting Feb. 1.
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“We have about 20% of our students who are out either confirmed positive or out with symptoms,” Craig’s superintendent said. One in five staff members is also out sick.
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Under the new rules, masks will be optional at Ketchikan schools when fewer than 50 COVID-19 cases are active in the community. The change comes as cases and hospitalizations are near record levels, straining some medical resources.
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