Enrollment in the Anchorage School District is down by thousands of students this year after officials opted to start classes online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and many families are choosing home-school programs instead of neighborhood schools.
This could have a big impact on the district’s finances, ASD chief financial officer Jim Anderson said. The combination of the drop in enrollment district-wide plus the number of students who have moved from neighborhood schools to home schools could mean big funding changes for the district – about a $26 million impact.
