The most critical step is a reprioritization of schools by all layers of Alaska’s government — the district itself, the municipality and the state.
Updated: November 18, 2023A school bus drives along W. 30th Avenue in Anchorage on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022.
• The Anchorage School District doesn’t operate its own plows. When it comes to the snow removal plan, the district is largely at the mercy of the municipality and state. This was illustrated most starkly by theon Thursday, because the only road to access it remained unplowed. In an interview this week, superintendent Jharrett Bryantt called the city’s plowing efforts a “strategic failure.”
District leadership would tell you that schools weren’t closed, they simply shifted to “remote learning,” an oxymoron if ever one existed. The reality is remote learning — which ASD has adopted as a solution to avoid adding instructional days to the academic calendar — is no real solution at all.
With that in mind, how can we improve schools’ ability to stay open? As mentioned earlier, the most critical step is a reprioritization of schools by all layers of Alaska’s government — the district itself, the municipality and the state. For the state and municipality, that means making sure that, at the very least, access to schools via arterial roads, and as many feeder streets as possible, is maintained immediately after a storm.
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