Kathy McCollum has been elected by the MatSu School Board as their new chairwoman, replacing Jubilee Underwood, who was recently elected to the Alaska House.
At the Nov. 20 school board meeting, the first since the Nov. 5 election, reelected members Bergey and Brooks Pitcher were reseated and new member Andrew Shane joined the dais.
McCollum has previously been clerk and vice president of the board. Shane was elected as vice president and Kruse became clerk.
The district has over 19,000 students in 49 schools over 25,000 square miles. The school board’s next meeting is at 6 p.m., Dec. 4, at the MatSu Borough School District’s Central Office, 501 N. Gulkana St, Palmer.
The Matanuska-Susitna Borough is the only one in the state that has aligned its local elections with national general elections.
(This story corrects an earlier version.)
Excellent group
Kathy McCollum= high integrity, honesty- selflessness and not to mention she is a bad a–…
Clarification: The Denali Borough and the City of Anderson hold their general elections on the first Tuesday in November. There’s a slight difference between that and the Tuesday after the first Monday in November, so theoretically they could occasionally have elections on consecutive Tuesdays. Perhaps you have readers who live there and could elaborate further.
I hope that they will be able to hold back the demons as well as they have for the past several years! This fight is for the children.
The dirty books are back in the school libraries. So the vaulted Mat-Su School Board still has a lot of work to do. Perhaps Ms Downing’s future work will include a lenghty interview with the new president about the dirty book status.
Kathy McCollum is a shining example of a rock solid citizen who will serve in this capacity in an exemplary manner with zero tolerance for secular progressive left wing liberal BS. Perfect!