Tunley v. Municipality of Anchorage School District

OPINION AS AMENDED ON REHEARING

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

The school age population of Anchorage is currently about 1,250 students less than it was at peak enroliment in 1976. Although it is debatable whether the decline in student population will continue, it is undisputed that at this time, Anchorage has a surplus of available classrooms, including eighty elementary school rooms. Because it is economically inefficient to operate schools at less than capacity, the Anchorage school administration in their draft Capital Improvement Plan for 1979-85 included school closure as a possible method…