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Robert Herrick

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False claims regarding the costs of charter schools

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By Robert Herrick
| Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Verified
Among the injustices surrounding the Pearl Creek saga, perhaps the most infuriating is the assertion that it will “cost” the school district over $2 million per year to “stand up” Pearl Creek STEAM Charter School (PCSCS), an absurd claim that appears to have been accepted as real by all parties in this week’s legal proceedings. In round numbers, the flawed logic behind this is as follows: Please log in, or sign up for a new account and purchase a subscription to continue reading.
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Our school district is trying to legislate through lawfare

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By Robert Herrick
| Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Verified
Once again our school district has had another behind-closed-doors meeting and rolled out another destructive decision that parents had no voice in. On Wednesday, May 7, Superintendent Meinert sent out a remarkable memo to parents detailing that the FNSB school board and district administration have directed attorneys to pursue legal action to overturn the decision by the Alaska State Board of Education & Early Development to approve the Pearl Creek STEAM Charter School.
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Superintendent Meinert’s “award” is dubious

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By Robert Herrick
| Fairbanks Daily News-Miner Verified
To the editor: This week the social media accounts of the Fairbanks School District touted that Superintendent Luke Meinert had been “named one of the nation’s Top 10 School District Superintendents for 2025 by Education Insider.” There are over 19,000 school districts in the U.S., so it would be impressive to be evaluated as among the top 10 superintendents in the country by a legitimate organization. However, when I checked the Education Insider website, I noticed a few anomalies.
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