The Alaska Community Foundation has established an endowment fund in honor of Anchorage School District Superintendent, Carol Comeau. Comeau is retiring after nearly 40 years with the ASD. The fund will help provide grants for projects that will directly impact students.
“We have been so blessed to have a leader like Carol Comeau over the last 40 years in our community who really cares about the students and the Anchorage School District, and we really hope that people will consider making a gift to something that she cared deeply about and helping to grow this fund of private dollars that really can be utilized to try to improve the education for all of our kids.”
“Creative things, for instance we had one classroom teacher who built solar suitcases with the students and then then they sent the suitcases to Sudan and Liberia to power a small medical clinic. Or we have another teacher who purchased a rice cooker and has rice in the back of the classroom so that when kids come into the classroom and they’re hungry there’s no stigma, they can go in an get a bowl of rice and make sure they have something in their stomach.”
Daysha Eaton is a contributor with the Alaska Public Radio Network.
Daysha Eaton holds a B.A. from Evergreen State College, and a M.A. from the University of Southern California. Daysha got her start in radio at Seattle public radio stations, KPLU and KUOW. Before coming to KBBI, she was the News Director at KYUK in Bethel. She has also worked as the Southcentral Reporter for KSKA in Anchorage.
Daysha's work has appeared on NPR's "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered", PRI's "The World" and "National Native News". She's happy to take assignments, and to get news tips, which are best sent via email.
Daysha became a journalist because she believes in the power of storytelling. Stories connect us and they help us make sense of our world. They shed light on injustice and they comfort us in troubled times. She got into public broadcasting because it seems to fulfill the intention of the 4th Estate and to most effectively apply the freedom of the press granted to us through the Constitution. She feels that public radio has a special way of moving people emotionally through sound, taking them to remote places, introducing them to people they would not otherwise meet and compelling them to think about issues they might ordinarily overlook.
