The Tanana City School District (TCSD) is the school district of

Tanana, Alaska Tanana ( in Koyukon language, Koyukon) is a city in the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. At the United States Census, 2010, 2010 census the population was 246, down from 308 in 2000. It wa ...

. Its sole school, Maudrey J. Sommer School, serves grades K-12.Welcome

. Tanana City School District. August 4, 2008. Retrieved on May 4, 2014. The school had 104 students in 1998.Hopkins, Kyle.
URL: http://www.adn.com/2009/03/18/728282/tanana-school-district-runs-out
" '' Anchorage Daily News''. March 18, 2009. Retrieved on May 4, 2014. As of August 2008, the school had five full-time teachers and five aides serving 56 students. By January 2009 the enrollment had declined to 39 students. At the time, many villagers were leaving to find other jobs. In 2008 the district did not pay $100,000 worth of bills and invoices. Some of the bills had been left over from two years prior. In 2009 John Bania, the superintendent, announced that the school was in $200,000 worth of debt. He stated that he would either stop paying teachers or stop paying bills, unless the State of Alaska gave the district a bailout. A biomass system is used to power and heat the teacher housing. The school was scheduled to get a biomass heating system started before January 1, 2013.Brehmer, Elwood.
Biomass saves big bucks to heat, power rural schools
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Alaska Journal of Commerce ''Alaska Journal of Commerce'' is a print and online publication based in Anchorage, Alaska. Covering business and industry in the state of Alaska, the publication was started in 1976 and was acquired by Morris Communications in 1995. Current ow ...

''. November 28, 2012. In: December Issue 1, 2012. Retrieved on May 4, 2014. "In Tanana, the city shop, teacher housing and water treatment facilities have already received biomass upgrades thanks to AEA dollars. City Manager Bear Ketzler Jr. said the city’s school project is expected to be up and running before the new year. ..he furnace is designed to cover 80 percent of the school’s heat at peak draw. That equates to a savings of roughly 80 gallons of heating oil on Tanana’s coldest days. “The school normally burns about 15,000 gallons a year and that’s down from about 25,000 before we did the weatherization project a couple years ago,” Ketzler said. “By burning wood we’ll be saving 10,000 gallons a year, that’s $50,000 to $60,000.”"

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* Education in Unorganized Borough, Alaska School districts in Alaska Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska {{Alaska-school-stub