Post by Logan on Feb 9, 2016 3:06:12 GMT -6
Education commissioner's firing followed refusal to spend for religious school
Mike Hanley lost Alaska’s top education job for the same reason that makes sustained school improvement difficult: political interference.
Vague explanations for Hanley’s firing, and the nonrenewal of Ed Graff’s contract as superintendent of schools in Anchorage, leave parents wondering why skilled and well-liked administrators lost their jobs. In my next column I’ll address the Graff issue.
Hanley, Alaska's commissioner of education and early development, ran afoul of Sen. Mike Dunleavy, R-Wasilla, after Hanley refused to steer state correspondence school money to Holy Rosary Academy, a Catholic school in Anchorage.
Dunleavy is chairman of the Senate Education Committee. He had been on Hanley’s case for not giving more control to the State Board of Education, a group mostly appointed by former Gov. Sean Parnell. Hanley felt he worked for Gov. Bill Walker as well as the board. Dunleavy told him the board was his only boss, Hanley said.
Read more: www.adn.com/article/20160208/education-commissioners-firing-followed-refusal-spend-religious-school
Mike Hanley lost Alaska’s top education job for the same reason that makes sustained school improvement difficult: political interference.
Vague explanations for Hanley’s firing, and the nonrenewal of Ed Graff’s contract as superintendent of schools in Anchorage, leave parents wondering why skilled and well-liked administrators lost their jobs. In my next column I’ll address the Graff issue.
Hanley, Alaska's commissioner of education and early development, ran afoul of Sen. Mike Dunleavy, R-Wasilla, after Hanley refused to steer state correspondence school money to Holy Rosary Academy, a Catholic school in Anchorage.
Dunleavy is chairman of the Senate Education Committee. He had been on Hanley’s case for not giving more control to the State Board of Education, a group mostly appointed by former Gov. Sean Parnell. Hanley felt he worked for Gov. Bill Walker as well as the board. Dunleavy told him the board was his only boss, Hanley said.
Read more: www.adn.com/article/20160208/education-commissioners-firing-followed-refusal-spend-religious-school