Alaska teacher apprenticeship program approval unlocks millions to fuel workforce pipeline

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Apprentice Jana Esmailka works at the school in Anaktuvuk Pass and is pursuing teaching credentials with an additional Tribal Educator certification from Arctic Slope Community Foundation. (Image courtesy of ASCF)When the only preschool teacher left Harold Kaveolook School in Kaktovik, a village of around 250 people on the northern coast of Alaska, Chelsea Brower was in charge. It was January and she had been the preschool aide for about a year-…