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State lawmakers seek answers after report finds squalid conditions at rural public schools
KYUK and ProPublica launched a project highlighting the public health and safety crisis inside Alaska’s rural public schools this month, kicking off a discussion among lawmakers on the powerful Senate ...
Juneau Empire on MSN6h
Alaska legislators ask feds to reinstate program that sent money to rural schools
The Alaska House of Representatives is asking Congress to fix a problem with a program that pays money to rural school ...
Alabama officials approve takeover of school district, cite $12 million grant error
A recent investigation found the district lacked “significant operational oversight,” costing it more than $12 million in ...
ProPublica on MSN9d
A rural Alaska school asked the state to fund a repair. Nearly two decades later, the building is about to collapse.
Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska ...
Anchorage Daily News19h
Alaska lawmakers show renewed interest in funding maintenance of school buildings beset by ‘dilapidation’
The Alaska Department of Education and Early Development broadly recommends that 3% of building values be allotted annually ...
WUFT13d
Rural schools in Alaska are crumbling. The state is the likely culprit.
Yet over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the problems that have left public schools across Alaska crumbling ...