The Dillingham City School Board approved Chris Agurrie as interim superintendent of the school district at a special meeting on Monday night. The previous superintendent, Amy Brower, resigned this spring.
Brower served as Dillingham’s superintendent for the last three years. The board accepted her letter of resignation in May, effective June 30. In the letter, she wrote she was resigning because of the school's “governance environment.”
“The ongoing dysfunction, lack of collaboration, and unhealthy work environment perpetuated by this board have made it increasingly difficult to lead effectively,” Brower wrote.
The school board hired Agurrie to replace Brower temporarily. Aguirre is from New York state but has worked in several Alaska school districts.
According to his Linkden, Agurrie was the Juneau School District’s director of student services from 2019 through 2020. Before that, he was assistant superintendent at the North Slope Borough School District and the principal of Kodiak High school.
Agurrie starts on July 15. His contract runs through June 30, 2026.
