Community pleads with Mat-Su Borough Assembly for more school funding

The Mat-Su Borough School district thought they had it bad with an $11 million gap before the board recently learned they could be looking at a $20 million deficit instead.
The new potential gap is mainly due to the Senate’s proposed five percent cut to education, which translates to the loss of about $10 million more for the district. But they also asked the Mat-Su Borough Assembly for a six percent increase from last year’s funding, and the Assembly’s initial budget only gave