KENDAL
KRUSE
FOR MAT-SU SCHOOL BOARD
MEET
KENDAL KRUSE
Kendal Kruse has been a resident of Alaska since 2014. She completed a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Dietetics and Nutrition Science from the University of Northern Colorado in 2013 and a professional Internship graduate program from Montana State University in Dietetics Nutrition Sciences specializing in sustainable food systems and rural healthcare in 2014.
In 2014 she moved to Nome, Alaska to work at the hospital and travel to the 15 villages around the region where she met her husband and they started their own family. While working in Nome she had the pleasure of working with the Children’s Home, the school district, many daycare providers, and running an annual summer health and wellness camps for children.
In 2018, she and her husband fell in love with Palmer, Alaska, and relocated. Their family grew to include 4 young children and her attention turned in earnest to early childhood education. Rigorous and comprehensive curriculum, the challenges of rural education in Alaska, and parental rights became her focus.
She is passionate about quality curriculum and education theory that produces actual results, parental rights, medical and religious freedoms, and fiscal responsibility. Children and their intellectual capitol should be the primary focus of the school system and accountability is key to achieving educational goals.
MISSIONS
Alaska’s public schools have, for many years, been ranked some of the lowest in the nation. Despite access to the largest amount of funding in history, we still rank the lowest. It’s time to start making that money work for the children and stop wasteful spending. The intellectual capital gained by every child in the district should be guiding and dominant focus of the School Board.
FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
QUALITY CURRICULUM
PARENTAL RIGHTS AND CHOICE
MEDICAL PRIVACY AND FREEDOM
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FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY
As our school budgets increase and funding is more available than ever before, our proficiency in subject matter is falling. We need to bring accountability to the school district and understand why we are less able today to teach reading, writing, and mathematics with the largest budget in our history.
We need to be investing in the right curriculums, teachers, and programs, while cutting the waste that is a distraction from the schools mission — educating children well.
QUALITY CURRICULUM
We need to take a long hard look at what methods and materials we are utilizing because the current methods are not producing proficiency in reading, writing, and mathematics for the majority of students.
In the kindergarten and first grades in particular, we need to address the methods and curriculum used to teach the foundations of reading so that children are adequately prepared for the subsequent grades and subject matter.
The curriculum needs to be transparent and accessible for parents to reinforce and teach at home themselves.
PARENTAL RIGHTS AND CHOICE
Any controversial subject matter should be transparent with easy opt-out choices for parents.
The schools should not be forcing ideology or political leanings on any student.
Parents should be able to easily access the entirety of curriculum and resources to be covered that are particularly controversial and express their opinions to including withdrawing students from participating in activities they seem inappropriate for their child.
MEDICAL PRIVACY AND FREEDOM
Medical devices such as masks and other medical treatments are a private and personal choice and should not be mandated or discussed in any classroom by a teacher or administrator with a child without the parent present.
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