Quote: Could any of you help me help her with information about the local education system and what is required for an out of stater desiring to take a position in the state.
I'm personally not an insider, but the outlaw side of the family sure are.
My wife is a teacher's aide, her dad was a high school maintenance man, her cousins (4 of them) are teachers/administrators in/were in various places in Alaska, her uncle & aunt were teachers here, and our daughter is in an education major program at UAA.
All I can say that I don't think you'll get from many sources is (and in order of importance):
1) If you plan to start work in the Bush (away from the road system), you may suffer from culture shock, but it won't be a career-long nightmare; it will set you up for a great job in a road network community (and the Bush pay is great)
2) Special-ed credentials along with a willingness to spend a few years in Bush Alaska seems like a guaranteed plan of long term success, if your goal is a great, permanent, Alaskan lifestyle
16 August 2004, 10:06
BW
Quote: "the odds are good but the goods are ODD"
There's also this classic...
'In Alaska you don't lose your woman, you just lose your turn'