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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 ...
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‘Absolutely devastating’: Rural schools say $100K visa fee could make it hard to hire teachers

Chalkbeat looks at how the $100K visa fee could devastate rural schools' efforts to hire teachers if they rely heavily on ...

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 lawmakers have different visions of education task force's goals

The Alaska Legislature opened an 18-month study of the state’s troubled public education system on Tuesday as lawmakers convened the first meeting of their Task Force on Education Funding, established ...