The Anchorage School District plans to close Nunaka Valley Elementary School at the end of this school year. Pictured on Jan. 27, 2025. Among the most visible signs of Alaska’s shrinking ...

In what the Alaska Legislature’s longest-serving ... Regional Education Attendance Area and Small Municipal School District (REAA) to provide more construction and maintenance funding for ...

From an initial survey, ACSA said the proposed policy change could affect 20% to 25% of Alaska school districts. ADVERTISEMENT. Anchorage and Juneau schools could be the hardest hit.

so Alaska must compete with the Lower 48. Some districts hire international teachers or use emergency contracts to staff their classrooms. Other districts are feeling the turbulence, too.

The district planned its budget around a $500 per pupil one-time increase in state funding — a good guess, considering the $680 per pupil increase in its budget for the next fiscal year.