Less than a month after wrapping up conversations about school closures for the current school year, the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District began talks during a Monday work session about which schools might be closed next year.

This year, the district closed Nikolaevsk School and very nearly closed Sterling Elementary School. Those decisions came toward the end of the school year — Nikolaevsk was closed in May and Sterling ended the school year with its closure included in a planned budget. KPBSD Board of Education President Zen Kelly said, in opening the conversation much earlier this year, he wants to see those discussions approached “a little bit differently.”

Kelly said the board will, over the next few months, develop a “framework” of key considerations to guide closure decisio

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