Ketchikan’s school board ratified the lump sum payment — equal to 130 days of pay and benefits — at its regular meeting Wednesday. The board also approved a budget for next school year and discussed the search for an interim superintendent.
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Why is the board offering $80,624 to Lougee? None of the school board’s members would answer questions on Tuesday.
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“With my husband passing away in January, and then, with my own health scare, it was just — it just feels like it’s time for me to focus on my own wellbeing and take the year off and kind of refocus,” Beth Lougee said.
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Ketchikan’s school board has completed its first regular evaluation of the school district’s chief administrator, who is facing accusations of racism from Ketchikan’s tribal leaders and some parents.
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Ketchikan’s school board is going to continue its evaluation of the district’s superintendent on Tuesday, and they’re opening up that meeting to public testimony on her performance.
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Shortly after returning to work from bereavement leave following the death of her husband, Lougee was medevaced to Washington state as she faced complications from the disease.
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The district says Lougee was hospitalized on Tuesday. She had recently returned to work from bereavement leave after losing her husband, David, last month to complications from COVID-19.
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David Lougee was the superintendent of Kashunamiut School District in the western Alaska community of Chevak and the husband of Ketchikan’s superintendent, Beth Lougee.
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