From what I can tell, the Anchorage School Board majority is (has been) stacked w/NEA-Alaska & AEA supporters...of course there's the ocassional token "fundie".  

It's bewildering there was no "breaking scandal" involved with his "firing"...and that's what it was.  

I suspect, given how the "public sector" operates in AK, he didn't run afoul of the "conservative" crowd.  They raise too much hell...even when counter-prooductive to their aims.  

This "dismissal" smacks of a behind-the-scenes hatchet job. Perhaps he overstepped his "bounds" and desired accountability from an education system with one of the highest per student expenditures and lowest performance in the nation...a nation, which coincidentally,  ranks among the lowest in the industrialized world.