Students finished their first quarter on Friday, but many eyes are already on next school year, when the district will roll out three major changes.
Anchorage students finished their first quarter on Friday, but many eyes are already on next school year, when the Anchorage School District will roll out three major changes. ASD Superintendent Jharrett Bryantt says the first change will be that all sixth graders will be middle school students. The second change has to do with school start times.Jharrett Bryantt:
The other thing that the board voted on was an adjustment to school start times. But that’s not going to be effective until the 2024-25 school year. And that’s because as you can imagine, a change in school start times doesn’t just impact ASD. It affects the traffic lights, it affects our small businesses, it also raises a lot of questions around childcare.
So what that means is that to achieve this goal of college career and life readiness for all ASD students, ASD will be transforming all of its seven comprehensive high schools into what we call ”career academies.” So what this means is that every single student in high school will be expected to participate in pathways, also known as academies, that are aligned, not just to any job, but to high-demand jobs that are here in Alaska.
We’ve also noticed that one in three young people are leaving Alaska. We also noticed that we have fewer working age adults than we’ve had in many years. And what ASD is committed is that we want to be a part of that solution. So by creating these academies, I envision that in five years, we’ll be graduating thousands of students that have dual credit. They’ll have had experiences and apprenticeships right here with businesses here in the Anchorage community.
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