Sam White is the new K-12 assistant principal in the Haines Borough School District, shown here on Oct. 4, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)
Sam White is the new K-12 assistant principal in the Haines Borough School District, shown here on Oct. 4, 2024, in Haines, Alaska. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Sam White came from a teaching background. He said he taught at an alternative school in Indiana, where he is originally from. Then he moved to Tacoma and taught AP psychology and world history. 

White said he had 180 kids in Tacoma at a school with 1900 kids…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...