This year, requests from rural school districts to the state's construction and maintenance ... Heavy equipment has to zigzag up the Kuskokwim River, which is frozen for half the year.

Rural schools in Alaska are crumbling. The state has failed for almost two decades ... Nestled along the northern bank of the upper Kuskokwim River in Alaska's interior, Sleetmute has no roads ...

The back end of the building is buckling under the weight. For decades, dozens of rural school districts have been asking the state for money to fix a range of serious health and safety problems.

This year, requests from rural school districts to the state's construction and maintenance ... is nestled alongside the upper reaches of the Kuskokwim River in Alaska's Interior.

Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that ...

Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance ... The Sleetmute school, nestled on the upper reaches of the Kuskokwim River, amid the spruce and birch forest ...