Paul McDonogh

Anchorage School Board backs public school scholarship groups under new tax credit

“shaped like a voucher, looks like a voucher, sounds like a voucher, but it's not a voucher”

Anchorage School Board keeps control of closed-school planning after lawyer advises against Assembly task force

Anchorage schools model a $9 million budget gap for fiscal 2028

Anchorage officials fail to agree on shared school-closure committee

Spend $3 million on students now, or save it for next year's hole

“I cannot make out the business case that this is a stronger proposal than the regular”

Two closed Anchorage school buildings head back to municipal hands

Anchorage school district proposes splitting $32 million in one-time state money

Anchorage band teacher tells school board he now teaches 330 students a day

Anchorage's school board says closures won't fix the budget; residents aren't so sure

Anchorage will ship contaminated concrete to Oregon after the state tightened disposal rules, adding $850,000

The Anchorage School Board pledges no more closures next year, but one member says the last three were never explained

“this resolution gives the board Well, gives the public the clear voice of us that says we will essentially accept the superintendent's recommendation not to close any schools except in the cases of emergencies.”

Anchorage School District adopts a single English curriculum for grades 6 through 10

“I will be voting no, not that this is the wrong book for the choice that we have to make tonight, but that I think we as a board need to actually honor that the teacher's ability to teach should be less confined than this process was designed to build.”

An Anchorage board member proposes a one-year pause on school closures

“the resolution would state that the board hereby commits that it does not intend to close any schools this school year as long as there's no emergency need, like weather, epidemic”

Anchorage board won't reopen a school it may not have fully closed

“the state undermined our own justification, and so this Amendment, and the reason I'm taking over the Lessons Amendment is not to remove those as priority. I think they'll need to be brought back, but it's because it's this dollar amount. $2.78 Million is nearly identical to what we said we recovered from the first year of closing Campbell.”

Anchorage School Board balks at a $2.8M curriculum buy members hadn't seen

“I would find a really hard time funding and accepting— the word accepting— the curriculum during a special meeting in the summer. Lots of people have other commitments. Um, that definitely feels like predictable, foreseeable, regular business, and I would encourage my colleagues to consider with care the public process required for us to be able to affirm knowledge contained within a curriculum.”

Anchorage School Board adopts class size policy under state mandate

ASD projects $40M FY28 deficit — two months after voters rejected school bond and tax levy

Anchorage schools adopt regional nurse model, will pull nurses from schools with fewer medical needs

ASD claims state funding bill comes too late

Seven Western Alaska typhoon evacuees graduate from Anchorage schools