Emily Schwing
Stories
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Alaska wants financially strained districts to take ownership of rural schools
Alaska owns dozens of crumbling rural schools. But now it wants cash-strapped districts to take on ownership of those buildings in exchange for funding to fix them.
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Alaska owns dozens of crumbling schools. It wants underfunded districts to take them on
Rural school district superintendents are trying to find the best use of limited resources. Taking on the state's unmaintained buildings, they say, will only increase their burden.
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Alaska's public schools can serve as emergency shelters. The buildings are in crisis
Alaska's public schools are being used as emergency shelters, though many of the buildings are crumbling.
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Rural schools in Alaska are crumbling. The state is the likely culprit
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 primarily serve Indigenous children.
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Deb Haaland’s push to protect Indigenous people disappoints some Native leaders
As a member of Congress, she passed a bill to hold the executive branch accountable for persistent violent crime in Native communities. Now she's a Cabinet secretary, but she's saying little about it.
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In some Alaska villages, hunting and fishing season starts with a "throwing party"
Also known as “seal parties,” the tradition brings women together to mark first catches and — more recently — other achievements as well.
