Anne Kilkenny versus Sarah Palin: where is the reality?
Kent Paul Dolan
whose letter detailing in uncomplimentary terms the
career of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, is being
challenged in a typical reactionaries' smear
campaign on the internet. Doing an intelligent
Google web search on her bona fides, as Anne
Kilkenny invited accompanying her letter, for
Anne.Kilkenny +Alaska +-palin +-2008
that leaves out anything from the past year or
involving Sarah Palin, assures that Anne Kilkenny is
as real as grass or sky. More interestingly, she has
exactly the educational chops and the advocacy
experience to make the comments she did.
Here are a few examples.
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Conference of Alaskans...
Delagates to the Conference...
Anne Kilkenny describes herself as a 22-year
Mat-Su resident, middle-aged housewife and
at-home mom with a child in middle school and a
retired, disabled spouse. She comes from a long
line of independent-minded, public-spirited
people and has been involved in education
advocacy and legislative analysis for local
PTAs. Prior to parenthood, she worked in the
Alaska's seafood industry. She has a Social
Science BA from the University of California,
Berkeley
http://www.sitnews.us/0104news/013004/013004_coa_delegate.html
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[testimony before the]
ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE
HOUSE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION
January 27, 2005
11:03 a.m.
ANNE KILKENNY
Wasilla, AK
POSITION STATEMENT: Testified in support of HB 73.
ANNE KILKENNY stated that there are different
needs in different districts because of the
adjustments that are not made in the foundation
formula. The foundation formula only makes four
or five adjustments. She said that the
foundation formula does not make adjustments
where student enrollment is decreasing and so,
the cost per student increases. The
aforementioned is the situation in Kenai. She
related situations in which property values rise
and cause local required contributions to
increase but this, in turn, decreases state
contributions, as is the case in Anchorage.
Therefore, certain areas have greater need than
others.
MS. KILKENNY discussed that schools that are
designed for specific numbers of students cannot
operate efficiently or cost effectively if the
student populations rise. She provided an
example in the Mat-Su Valley, and noted that
even the governor's proposal may be inadequate
for the Mat-Su Valley. She expressed her belief
that, "a refinement of the Anchorage school
district budget would mean a diminishment of the
quality of education in that district as it
would in the Mat-Su, as it would in Kenai, as it
would in Ketchikan, Petersburg, North Slope
burrow, and every other district that has
indicated that even the governor's proposal is
inadequate for this simple maintenance of the
status quo."
http://www.legis.state.ak.us/pdf/24/M/HEDU2005-01-271103.PDF
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[testimony before the]
ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE
HOUSE HEALTH, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SERVICES STANDING COMMITTEE
February 15, 2005
3:05 p.m.
ANNE KILKENNY
Wasilla, Alaska
POSITION STATEMENT: Testified in support of increased education
funding.
ANNE KILKENNY, Wasilla, complimented the
superintendent of the schools for the
Matanuska-Susitna School District for his
honesty in stating that the Mat-Su schools would
maintain status quo with the governor's proposed
funding increase. However she expressed
dissatisfaction with status quo both as a mother
and as the president of the parent organization
at the middle school. She commented that there
would have been no No Child Left Behind
legislation if the status quo was acceptable.
She said:
It's time that we move ahead. This No Child
Left Behind legislation demands it of us,
that we make improvements and that we
educate our children to rising standards.
... This legislative mandate has so many
requirements that it's necessary to increase
funding to education to enable these rising
expectations and rising standards to be met.
I'm asking that you amend this bill and that
you increase [the base student allocation]
to at least $5,086. [Based on] the
testimony given to the [House Special
Committee on Education], half of the
students in the State of Alaska... are in
districts that would be able to function at
an improved level with $5,086. It's not
enough for Nikiski, it's not enough for a
lot of places. But it is enough for at
least half the kids. ... Our expectations
are not wild. Juneau is only asking to
reduce high school classes to 30, and
kindergarten to 20. These are modest goals.
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MATANUSKA-SUSITNA BOROUGH ASSEMBLY
SPECIAL MEETING MAY 18, 2006
B. Ordinance Serial No. 06-006: AN ORDINANCE
APPROPRIATING MONIES FROM THE CENTRAL TREASURY AND
ESTABLISHING THE RATE OF LEVY FOR ALL BOROUGH
FUNCTIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1,
2006, AND ENDING JUNE 30, 2007.
The following person spoke in support of funding
the School District: Ms. Anne Kilkenny.
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The above search provides 61 hits, I'm not going to
go through all of them, but the above is quite
enough to establish that the critics of Anne
Kilkenny pretending that she does not exist are out
of line, driven, by an agenda of presenting the US
with inferior candidates elected to office, to
ignore inconvenient things like facts.
xanthian.
Zelda Rottencrotch
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msspurlock
California, pushing a letter drafted by Obama's "Dirty Tricks" team.
FAIL.