Is this about big people or little people?
Lon Garrison, AASB Executive Director For the past 18 months, school boards and superintendents have been under intense pressure to deliver public education opportunities to […]
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Making Hard Choices – Sharing Responsibility
By Lon Garrison, AASB Executive Director As many of you know, AASB has decided that the safest way to offer in-person events is to require proof of vaccination […]
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Lon Garrison, AASB Executive Director As the 2020-2021 school year comes to a close, we look to the summer ahead and perhaps some well-deserved time […]
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Lon Garrison, AASB Executive Director I have been reflecting recently on what unusual and uncertain times we are in. At this time last year, we […]
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Lon Garrison, AASB Executive Director Alaska’s model of school governance is most likely one of the purest forms of representative democracy that exists. Any qualified […]
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Lon Garrison, AASB Executive Director I would never have imagined I would start my tenure as the AASB executive director in the middle of a […]
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