Alaska lawmakers show renewed interest in funding maintenance of school buildings beset by 'dilapidation'
Alaska lawmakers are showing renewed interest in addressing a backlog in school building maintenance in the wake of a report detailing the costly ramifications of years of underfunding school ...
A Miami millennial explains what it's like to travel to rural Alaska to help locals file taxes, saving some thousands in fees
Facing frostbite and subzero temperatures, Florida tax attorney Karen Lapekas provided free services to Alaskans in remote ...
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A Rural Alaska School Asked the State to Fund a Repair. Nearly Two Decades Later, the Building Is About to Collapse.
Nearly two dozen children in the tiny village of Sleetmute, Alaska, arrive for school each morning to a small brown building that is on the verge of collapse. Every year for the past 19 years, the ...
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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 ...
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‘Losing from uncertainty’: Experts say chaotic federal funding freezes are disrupting rural Alaska projects
Alaska-based organizations say some project funds are getting frozen and unfrozen irregularly, stalling efforts to lower ...
Inside the Schools Alaska Ignored
Two inches of raw sewage. Black mold. A bat infestation. Reporter Emily Schwing shares what she uncovered as she investigated ...
Numerous Alaska projects worth over $1B remain uncertain weeks after Trump order froze funds, consumer advocacy group reports
Alaska projects that were selected to receive more than $1 billion in federal funds remain in a state of uncertainty after President Donald Trump froze funding in January for two major Biden-era bills ...
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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 ...
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Rural schools in Alaska are crumbling. The state is the likely culprit
Like many schools in Alaska, it's owned by the state, which is required by law to pay for construction and maintenance projects. Yet over the past 25 years, state officials have largely ignored ...