'Time for me to focus on my own wellbeing': Ketchikan superintendent of schools submits resignation
Ketchikan’s outgoing superintendent, Beth Lougee. (Photo courtesy Beth Lougee) Last summer as schools grasped out to reopen amid the pandemic, Ketchikan’s school board overruled her reopening advice after several tense town halls and hours of testimony. It eventually forced the district to resume full in-person instruction in September. Later that winter she was roundly criticized by tribal members and parents in the district who said she’d given short shrift to Alaska Native education. Then there was personal tragedy: she and her husband both contracted COVID-19 in over the winter. Her...
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