Alaska Attorney Gen. Stephen Cox finds it deeply concerning that the state’s largest school district has failed to endorse a simple flyer for students that contains the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
“This is deeply concerning,” Cox posted to his X account on Nov. 9. “Public officers have to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. I took such an oath on my first day. Alaska law requires school board members to sign—and swear to support and defend—the U.S. Constitution.”
Cox was responding to a Nov. 8 article in Must Read Alaska, which revealed that the Anchorage School District has stickers attached to student copies of America’s founding documents, stating, “The Anchorage School District does not endorse these materials or the viewpoints expressed in them.”
The article was based on information provided by Anchorage parent Katherine Hardy, whose daughter found the disclaimer sticker attached to a pamphlet of the nation’s founding documents.
“When a public school district says it won’t endorse the Constitution or the Declaration, or ‘the viewpoints expressed in them,’ something has gone terribly wrong,” Cox noted.
The flyer was published by Hillsdale College. It is a small booklet containing the Declaration of
Independence and the U.S. Constitution. These booklets are available for free to schools across the nation.
According to the school district’s approval process for community flyers, all materials approved for posting or distribution “must contain a disclaimer on the front page stating: “The Anchorage School District does not endorse this program/these materials or the viewpoints expressed therein.”
The blanket protocol extended to the very documents that every Anchorage School Board member is bound to defend and uphold.
According to Alaska State law, all school board members in Alaska, including those in Anchorage must take the following oath before serving in public office: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Alaska and that I will honestly, faithfully, and impartially discharge my duties as a school board member to the best of my ability.”
TAKING ACTION
— Click here to contact members of the Anchorage School Board.
— Click here to order free copies of the Hillsdale Pocket Constitution.
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DUNLEAVYS ON FIRE! WITH THE ACTIONS OF KEVIN CLARKSON, ED SNIFFIN, TREG TAYLOR, AND NOW STEPHEN COX. WE CAN COUNT ON A LETTER OF INSTRUCTION ADDRESSED TO THE ANCHORAGE SUPERINTENDENT, WRITTEN ON ALASKAN STATE STATIONARY, WITH A NOTORY STAMP!!! ON FIRE, HEAVY HANDED,THREATENING, SCARY, BS!
This is so disturbing. I would like to know who directly gave the order for this sticker. They should be called upon to explain why they did it!
So now what??????
I’m not a bit surprised. Our education system has turned very socialistic. I guess they’re afraid if they agree then parents will have re-gained guardianship of their children. I think we should abolish the Federal Education and return education control to the community. I am so tired of our education system thwarting the will of the people. Students do not have a clue as to the structure, history, or rules of how this country founded, therefore they believe anything their repulsive teachers tell them. Granted not all teacher are repulsive, but in the way they support their union we can put them all in the same category.
NO SUPRIZE THEN TO REALIZE SMOLDEN AND DUNLEAVY ARE “EDUACATORS”! COMMUNIST!!
Send your complaints regarding ASD School Board’s refusal to endorse the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to
1. School Board President Carl Jacobs Email: jacobs_carl@asdk12.org call 907-742-1101 ext. 5
2. Andy Holleman Email: holleman_andy@asdk12.org call Phone: 907-742-1101 ext.1
3. School Board Vice-President Margo Bellamy Email: bellamy_margo@asdk12.org call Phone: 907-742-1101 ext. 7
4. Kelly Lessens Email: lessens_kelly@asdk12.org call Phone: 907-742-1101 ext. 2
5. Dave Donley Email: donley_dave@asdk12.org call Phone: 907-742-1101 ext. 6,
6. Pat Higgins Email: higgins_pat@asdk12.org call Phone: 907-742-1101 ext. 3
7. Dora Wilson Email: Wilson_Dora@asdk12.org call Phone: 907-742-1101 ext. 4
Thank you for your public response AG Cox, and for having a backbone and being a true patriot. Our family thanks you.
The very reason why government officials take the oath of allegiance to the U.S. Constitution was because of the War Between the States, and it became a required act of taking office, including blue collar government employment. The open, documented disclaimer is a clear violation of the oath. At the very least, an investigation into the origin and authorization of the disclaimer is required. I thank AG Cox for his X account post, but like Elizabeth V posts above, “So now what?”.
It should be painfully clear that a cold, ideological revolution has long ago begun. It has breached illegal activity around the nation, including violence against federal officials conducting law enforcement operations. If this is allowed to continue, we are begging for more.
Opinions of the constitution are matters of the courts and should only be approved as such. Outside opinions are not established fact and should be so noted.
Another Dunleavy AG from outside with no real knowledge about Alaska but providing an ideological bent. How about doing something important like suing the Trump administration to pay back SNAP benefits? Heck, you spend Alaska’s money join many briefs that have no relevance to Alaskans, but to enjoin something that really matters oh no! Can you do real work and not waste our money and time on silliness. Thank you signed Alaskans who are tired of wasted money and fake outrage!
Please, Alaska Attorney General Stephen Cox, do more than “find it deeply concerning”.
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If: (a) “Alaska law requires school board members to sign —and swear to support and defend— the U.S. Constitution.”, but School Board members deliberately don’t and (b) there’s no law against what they did, are they home free?
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Sure and you need a reasonably honest judiciary and a grand jury which can’t be manipulated by the judiciary to look deeper.
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But, Alaska, as facts seem to indicate, doesn’t have either, so what’s the point, AG Cox, of “finding it deeply concerning” about anything Anchorage School Board, or any other school board, does if you can’t do anything about it?
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Anything? For example, Anchorage School Board members voted –unanimously– to steer million-dollar-plus school-district contracts exclusively to union-controlled contractors. Whether they’re involved in racketeering, i.e., padding contracts to push cost over a million so contracts can go only to union-controlled shops, isn’t it your job to find out? Grooming children, exposing children to transvestic perversion, publicly declaring intent to obstruct ICE …thereby raising the question of whether they may be harboring illegal aliens and adults passing themselves as illegal-alien children while sending SNAP bucks back to the Old Country …if stuff like this isn’t “deeply concerning” to you, why did you even take the job?
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Apologies in advance, Stephen, maybe we got this all wrong (God, we hope so!), but right now, it looks way too much like some version of the Mob is running Alaska’s education industry; we the people can’t stop it, all you, the AG can do, is be “deeply concerned”, Alaska’s judiciary and grand-jury systems seem FUBAR’d, and best of all, the Mob knows it.
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Talk to us, Stephen. What are you going to do about it? What do you need from us to do something about it?
WELL SAID AND COMPLETELY AGREE! COUNT ON NO ANSWERS FROM THESE FRAUDS! THANKS AGAIN TO DUNLEAVY!
Question: Is the sticker on the Hillsdale booklet or on the documents? I support Hillsdale College, but it is a private institution and it might be correct to put a disclaimer on the booklet?