The school board will vote on a school reconfiguration model on Thursday at 5:30 p.m.
The Juneau School Board is considering consolidating Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé and Thunder Mountain High School to help address
“I think that our upcoming ninth graders deserve to have the same high school experience that we did,” she said. Thunder Mountain was a newer, well-organized building. It has a football field and track, and the Dimond Park Aquatic Center and Mendenhall Valley Public Library are nearby. But it had minimal space for career and technical education classes and underutilized teacher planning rooms, the report said.
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