State board to probe concerns at Mt. Edgecumbe High School

The Alaska Board of Education is supporting a recommendation by the state education commissioner to form an ad-hoc committee to address student well-being at Mt. Edgecumbe High School.

At its meeting on Jan. 23, board members backed the idea of initiating the ad-hoc committee process after hearing in public testimony that nearly 100 Mt. Edgecumbe students — 25 percent of the student body — have dis-enrolled from the state-operated boarding school since the academic year…