Bob Griffin was removed from the state board of education and Mike Porcaro was removed from a paid position with a commercial fishery commission.
Updated: 36 seconds agoSen. Löki Tobin, an Anchorage Democrat, speaks in opposition to the confirmation of state board of education appointee Bob Griffin during a joint session of the Alaska House and Senate on Tuesday at the State Capitol in Juneau. state boards, during one of the final days of a legislative session marked by bitter disagreements between the governor and lawmakers on education policy.
The Alaska Legislature rejected Bob Griffin's appointment to the state board of education in a 21-39 vote on Tuesday. Griffin said that the remaining board members are “aligned” with him on the policies he pursued. He also said he thought that Dunleavy would replace him on the board with someone “that’s maybe even more conservative.”
“Throwing money at our ineffective education system has not helped in the past and will not do so at this time,” Tyndall, a North Pole resident, wrote in an email to the Senate Education committee last year in which she asked lawmakers not to increase the Base Student Allocation.Porcaro in August to the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, a small agency that issues annual commercial fishing permits, among other tasks. The position carried with it a salary of $136,000.
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