Wrangell Sentinel -

Middle and high school students may find themselves facing a new slate of language arts classes when fall rolls around.

The changes are planned ahead of revisions to the Alaska state educational standards planned for the 2015-16 school year, school officials say. They’re also planned to take advantage of consistently improving language arts abilities among incoming sixth-graders, said Bob Davis, a language arts teacher at Stikine Middle School.

The majority of changes will take place in the middle school, Davis said.

“It’s partly” standards, he said. “The elementary school has bee...