Mat-Su Borough School District learns $11.2 million deficit is actually best case scenario

Alaskans showed up to the Mat-Su Borough School District board meeting in Palmer Wednesday night to speak out against outsourcing roughly 120 custodian jobs, but board members unexpectedly tabled the vote because they’ve learned the district’s budget situation is more dire than previously thought.
The $11.2 million deficit they’ve been struggling to fill has now become a best case scenario.
“We spent time in Juneau, and we spent time yesterday at the assembly, and we stil