The proposed campus is expected to take years of fundraising and construction, It would serve students from early childhood into college.
A rendering of the conceptual design of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska’s education campus.
A walking path weaving through the property would connect the campus buildings. Current Tlingit and Haida education programs will come together on the site, and so will a new tribal college and K-12 school program. Last year, Tlingit and Haida was one of five tribal organizations to receive a Education compact agreements allow tribes to develop their own K-12 curriculum and schedule. But, unlike charter schools, they’d be independent of existing public school districts.
The campus will also have a space for a new event center. Peterson says he hopes it can be a gathering place for major events like Celebration, the Gold Medal Basketball Tournament and Native Youth Olympics. “Our goal is to grow it out. We’ve already gotten some feedback,” he said. “Classrooms need to be a little bigger, we need more parking — but we have the space for that.”
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