Anchorage School Board advances major career academies plan for students

And: Alaska oil industry employee dies in workplace incident at Prudhoe Bay ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Email not displaying correctly? [View the web version]( Today's sponsor: [Today's sponsor: Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities]( Good afternoon. It’s Thursday, June 6. In today's newsletter: - The Anchorage School Board voted to [move forward a career academies initiative]( that could reshape the way students attend high school — but added an option for families to opt out of a later portion of the program. - On Monday, police shot and killed a 21-year-old man in a northeast Anchorage parking lot, [marking the third time]( officers have shot a suspect in as many weeks. - A [worker was killed]( at a Prudhoe Bay facility this week, the fourth reported workplace fatality in the North Slope oil industry in 14 months. Want the beauty of Alaska's many wildflower varieties at home? You can have it, gardening columnist Jeff Lowenfels writes, if you learn how to integrate these wildflowers into the home landscape. Here's[how to do it](. Anchorage weather It's mostly cloudy today with isolated rain showers and a high near 58 degrees. Friday should be mostly sunny, but rain will return for the second half of the weekend and last into next week. Daytime temperatures will hover in the low- to mid-60s. Here’s what else is making headlines in Alaska today. — Megan Pacer, mpacer@adn.com [Anchorage School Board advances career academies plan but adds an opt-out →]( The board's vote this week means the rollout will begin this fall for freshmen, with a one-semester career exploration course. ADVERTISEMENT [Your guide to Alaska’s summer fairs and festivals in 2024 →]( From Kodiak to Chicken and points in between, here’s a guide to summer festivals happening across Alaska this year. [Man pulled gun ‘off his person’ before officers shot him, police say →]( The shooting marked the third time Anchorage police have shot someone in the past three weeks. The shootings, which left two men dead and a third hospitalized, are the first in the city [to be captured by officers’ body cameras](. [Alaska oil industry employee dies in workplace incident at Prudhoe Bay →]( The four deaths reported in a little over a year's time represent an unusually high number of fatalities in a relatively short period of time for oil field operations in the region. [Alaska LNG agency and energy exploration company take early step toward a gas deal →]( Alaska’s gas line agency and an oil and gas company with North Slope prospects have taken a step toward a deal that could one day provide gas for the $44 billion Alaska LNG project. [Mat-Su school board eliminates student representative position →]( The Mat-Su school board voted to eliminate a longstanding student representative position, a move that began last year after a former representative voiced concerns over several board decisions. ADVERTISEMENT More from the ADN [Alaska board of education waits to take up correspondence school regulations until after Supreme Court hearing →]( [McCarthy Road reopened after collapse triggered partial closure →]( [The last WWII vets converge on Normandy for D-Day and to remember fallen friends →]( [Climate records keep shattering. How worried should we be? →]( [Israeli detention center faces legal challenge after ‘unimaginable abuses’ →]( [SpaceX’s Starship megarocket completes its 4th test flight from Texas without exploding →]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Click here to unsubscribe and manage your email subscriptions.]( Anchorage Daily News, 300 W 31st Ave, Anchorage, AK 99503, United States