Parents, teachers, students and district staff attend a Juneau School Board meeting on Feb. 13, 2024.
The Juneau Tlingit and Haida Community Council has donated $150,000 to the Juneau School District. Rhonda Butler is the president of the community council, an elected group that represents Juneau’s Tlingit and Haida citizens.fund their annual donation program, and Butler said they’ve donated to the school district in the past.
“This year it was a little bit higher, especially when we were getting notice from different tribal members that the need for food was on a rise,” she said.They also donated $45,000 to support student activities, including the high school basketball teams, Thunder Mountain’s wrestling team, Yadaa.at Kalé Juneau-Douglas High School’s cheer team, the district’s Native Youth Olympics programs and the Tlingit Culture, Language and Literacy program’s robotics team.
Butler said partnerships like this will be key to supporting all of Juneau’s students through the district’s budget crisis. The district is
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