Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District
Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District (MSBSD) is a school district based in the city of Palmer, Alaska. It serves 40 schools across Mat-Su Borough, which each enroll from 15 to 1300 students. The estimated sum of the total number of students attending schools in this district is 15,969. MSBSD is the second-largest school district in Alaska, with the largest district being Anchorage School District. In the 2007-2008 school year, Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District had an expenditure of $150,531,684, which is a $9,426 expenditure for every student. The current superintendent  is Dr. Randy Trani. History. In April 2020 the school district board deemed five books, "Catch-22", "The Great Gatsby", "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", "Invisible Man", and "The Things They Carried," to be inappropriate for use in the classroom. Among the reasons cited were "anti-white" sentiments. A local attorney responded with a "book challenge," asking students to read all five works. In May of that year the school board restored the books to the curriculum.