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Anchorage schools grapple with a severe budget crisis, leading to school closures and program cuts. This year, a ninety-million-dollar deficit was addressed by shutting down three elementary schools and eliminating a gifted student program. Next year, a projected forty-million-dollar shortfall looms due to rising costs and flat state funding. Parents and communities face growing class sizes and disappearing neighborhood schools. Voters have a crucial role in retaining teachers and stabilizing staff through Proposition nine, while legislative talks for state funding boosts continue.

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