"is it true she was involved with textbook editing for Alaskan Schools?" olddude

That is not something I have heard anything about. I went looking online and found nothing like that. So far as I know, Alaska does not create its own textbooks- we still have only about 600,000 residents with about half of them clustered in Anchorage. The rest of the people are scattered around a very large region, mostly in dribs and drabs of 100 to 3000 people. Juneau is #3 in town size and we have only 30,000 residents.

All this to say that we don't yet have a culture of power nor the cadres of educators it would take for credibility in education.

Of course, Texas for all its size and age and population doesn't do any better than Alaska would. :_