Tenakee Springs
Tenakee Springs () is a city on Chichagof Island in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2010 census the population was 131, up from 104 at the 2000 census.
Geography
Tenakee Springs is located on the northern part of Chic ...
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Alaska
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Chatham School District
The Chatham School District (CSD) is a school district headquartered in Angoon, Alaska.Juneau Empire
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History
The newspaper was founded on November 2, 1912, as the ''Alaska Daily Empire''. It was founded by John Franklin Alexander ...
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History
In 2009 Tenakee Springs School served 13 students in grades K-12 with a staff of 3. The curriculum included topics such as the environment, marine safety, and survival.Tenakee School: About the school , Chatham School District web site, retrieved 2008-12-05 In 2009 Anne E. Connelly operated the school. Around 2009 due to state policy which only funds rural schools with ten or more students, the school in Tenakee Springs was in danger of closing. By 2009 the school remained open because two families with six children moved to the community after responding to an advertisement of the school, asking for more families, on
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. In 2013 the board voted 4–1 to close the school for one year due to a drop in enrollment. That year the school had three domestic students and two foreign exchange students. The school later reopened. In the 2015–2016 school year it had 11 students, but a family moved away and enrollment declined to five. It closed again in summer 2016 due to the enrollment drop. The district opted to make it a homeschooling resource center to continue supporting families in Tenakee Springs.
Alaska Department of Education
The Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (EED) is an agency of the state government responsible for primary and secondary education in Alaska. It is headquartered in Juneau.