A leading Republican candidate for Alaska governor is making national news, appearing on Fox News on Sunday, taking aim at the Anchorage School District after the district left Veterans Day off its official calendar and instead labeled the Nov. 11 holiday as a “student release professional development day.”
In a statement to Fox News, candidate Bernadette Wilson said the omission is “absolutely unacceptable,” adding that it reflects a broader problem in public education. The omission was first noted on social media and then by The Alaska Story.
She pointed to what she described as lingering indoctrination and woke ideology inside the school system, noting that this was the same district that recently placed disclaimers on pamphlets of the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence, telling families that the district “does not endorse” the viewpoints contained in the nation’s founding documents.
Wilson told Fox News she believes a governor has several tools available to shake the system and “embolden parents,” arguing that options such as education savings accounts, “no more lines” legislation, and expanded charter and home-school opportunities would strengthen Alaska’s schools. “Any number of different charter schools, home-school co-ops, I mean, there’s a whole host of things out there where parents have options,” she said.
She emphasized that the next administration should keep the discussion going, saying, “I think that we need to continue the conversation to embolden parents to be able to utilize those options in front of them.”
Wilson comes from a family with a long history of military service.
The Anchorage School District declined to respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
The race for Alaska governor is one of the most crowded in state history, with 14 candidates registered with the Alaska Public Offices Commission. Two are Democrats — former state Senate Minority Leader Tom Begich and Anchorage state Sen. Matt Claman. The other 12 are Republicans: Click Bishop, Dave Bronson, Adam Crum, Nancy Dahlstrom, Edna DeVries, Matt Heilala, Shelley Hughes, Henry Kroll, James Parkin, Treg Taylor, Roger “Bruce” Walden, and Bernadette Wilson.
2 thoughts on “Fox News reports: Alaska GOP candidate blasts Anchorage schools for scrubbing Veterans Day from calendar”
I know that she wants to unify the Republicans, Conservatives, Moderates, Christian, and just common sense Alaskan behind her to get the 51+1 RCV votes
But “believes a governor has several tools available to shake the system”
Is over optimistic when considering Alaska
Gov Murkowski DID shake the system and it cost his re-election, Governor Walker also shook the system and he was a one term Governor, and Gov Dunleavy made a proposal that will had shook the system but he was only to test the public before signing it, if he gone through with it, he too would had only been a one term Governor.
Governors really do not have as much power as the position alludes it. Some Governors can be stronger because of they have the majority of the public on their side or that Governor with legislature and courts are tyrants and dictators while the public are too ignorant and too illiterate to fight back.
Whether or not Republicans want to accept it, your Governors will be moderates (Don’t lie) because the state of Alaska peoples are terribly government dependent and badly illiterate because of government and lacking a true faith in God over their lives while Alaskans continue looking toward government to solve their problems.
“In Alaska the Governor has a legislature to work with to keep government moving, the legislature has to work with courts and community councils and lesser local leaders such as Mayors, Assemblies, School Board members, non profit leaders, business leaders
Whoever is at the bottom and legislature determines what can move forward at the top not giving the Governors much power if he doesn’t want to be a hinderance to government moving forward.
“I think that we need to continue the conversation to embolden parents to be able to utilize those options in front of them.”
Continue the conversation? That’s political speech for “I don’t have a solution or a plan to propose, but I want you to believe I’m on the right side of this issue.”
I’m having a hard time seeing substance from this candidate. She knows how to make noise and identify an attractive photo op, but I’m not seeing much else.