Susan McKenzie, the new commissioner of the Alaska Department of Education and Early Development, is seen in an undated photo provided by the Office of the Governor.
The office of Gov. Mike Dunleavy announced the appointment Monday evening after McKenzie was selected for the job by the state school board following a monthslong search. of the Division of Innovation and Education Excellence at the department, will start work April 1, the governor’s office said. “As an educator for 40 years, my life’s work has been to improve education for students, optimizing their achievement, leading to greater future choices. I’ve witnessed the pattern of failure to support students with evidence-based practices and have been desperately determined to affect change,” McKenzie said in a prepared statement. “Our children deserve our best.
McKenzie taught elementary-age students in the North Slope Borough for five years and worked as a teacher for one year in Fairbanks before working in Oregon as a reading specialist and special education teacher. She was the principal of Copper River School District — where Johnson was superintendent — from 2010-2013. She then returned to Oregon, working as superintendent of the small Gaston School District. She joined the Alaska Department of Education after that.
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