Anchorage School District removes Veterans Day from the official calendar– instead, refers to the holiday as a “student release professional development day”

Anchorage School District in Alaska omitted Veterans Day from the district’s official calendar for the 2025-26 school year, referring to the holiday instead as a “student release professional development day.”

This comes after the district came under fire for attaching a disclaimer to a flyer given to students that only contained the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. The disclaimer read, “The Anchorage School District does not endorse these materials or the viewpoint expressed in them.”