Student opportunity: AASB?AK Ice The Association of Alaska School Boards/Alaska ICE wants to support healthy youth/adult relationships where young people feel valued and empowered and adults build assets to help young people thrive. Tell us what you would like to do for your community and you may have an opportunity to receive up to $500 to help you to do it! Our Youth Led Service Project Reimbursable Stipends have become so successful that we now offer them three times a year. Because they have become so popular, we may not be able to fund your project the first time that you submit it. But you may certainly submit it in the next cycle.

The deadline for this application is Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Please contact Bridget Smith, Community Engagement Educator,

bsmith@aasb.org, Association of Alaska School Boards, 1111 West 9th Street, Juneau, Alaska 99801. Please call 907-463-1660 with your questions. 

APPRENTICESHIP OPPORTUNITY

The Alaska Teamster Employer Service Training Trust Joint Apprenticeship & Training Committee will accept apprenticeship Applications from January 18, 2012 through January 31, 2012.  All applicants must complete the WorkKeys Assessment and include their scores with their applications, minimum score attainment required.  Applications are available beginning 12/19/11 on the website at www.akteamsterstraining.com, in person at the Anchorage & Fairbanks Training Centers or by mail by calling Cheri Lipps, Apprenticeship Coordinator at 907-751-9785.

 Completed applications must be returned to (by mail or in person):

Alaska Teamster Training Center

Apprenticeship Coordinator

 520 E. 34th Avenue, Suite 201, Anchorage AK 99503

Regardless of postmark - Applications MUST be received by 4:00 PM – January 31, 2012.  NO FAXES or EMAILS. Late or incomplete applications will not be accepted. NO EXCEPTIONS.

For more information go t  www.akteamsterstraining.com  or contact Cheri Lipps at 907-751-9758.

NOTICE OF INTENT TO DESTROY SPECIAL EDUCATION RECORDS

The NWABSD is informing parents of students who have not been in school for five or more years, and those students, that the district no longer needs the special education records. The records may include evaluation and eligibility scores, IEPs, oral assessment reports.The district encourages parents to maintain copies of these records, as they may be useful in applying for adult services.  If you would like a copy of these records or wish to object to the destruction of the records, please contact: Roberta Carter or Cheryl Schweigert at 442-3472.  If the district does not hear from you by February 28, 2012,the district plans to destroy the records. If contact information has not changed in the past 5 years, you may have already been contacted.  Please note that the district will continue to maintain a permanent record of your child’s name,address, and phone number, along with his or her grades, attendance record,classes attended, grade level completed, and year completed.  According to 4 Alaska Administrative Code 52.760, the district shall maintain records until no longer needed to provide educational services, but not fewer than 5 years.