It is always such an amazing thing to watch not only our Alaska School systems but seeming every Public School system when new administrators are hired.  The 'new' one always gets a better $$$$$$$  package than the last.   

Then when schools start the next fall, "all" students are "required" to provide pencils, paper, and other "essentials" that the school district just can't afford.  It just isn't in the budget.  Academic programs are cut, unless students pay the cost, and parents have to foot the bill for all extracurricular activities.  All because of 'budget' shortfalls.  Because the State doesn't give the system enough money.  

Paramo may be the best thing since sliced bread, and I don't mean to disparage her, but perhaps there is a much more important and greater usage for an educational system's budget than the perfect slice of bread who lives in a Big Lake Cabin?  

Yet everyone chides politicians for being poor at economics!