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Alaska's rural schools need major infrastructure investment. KYUK has been investigating

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March 4, 2025

Alaska's rural schools need major infrastructure investment. KYUK has been investigating

For the last several months, KYUK’s Emily Schwing has been investigating why Alaska’s rural public schools are falling apart. This week we’ll hear some of the work she’s done in partnership with ProPublica and National Public Radio (NPR).

Schwing sat down with KYUK’s Sage Smiley to talk more about the project and what she has found.

Read a transcript of the conversation below.

KYUK (Sage Smiley): Thanks so much for joining me today on [“Coffee at KYUK”], Emily. First of all, can you tell us what made you take on this project?

Emily Schwing: So honestly, I got a phone call and a couple text messages from someone in Sleetmute. He was very persistent, and finally I picked up the phone and he explained what was going on with the building in Sleetmute and all of the structural damage that the school district was trying to mitigate.

KYUK: For those who haven’t interacted with KYUK’s previous reporting, with your previous reporting on Sleetmute school, what’s happening there?

Schwing: What is happening in the Sleetmute school is that the roof there has been leaking for almost two decades, and maybe even longer than that. It’s caused a ton of other damage in the building. The water has run down into some of the walls; there’s water damage in the ceiling. The wetness that has been left unchecked has caused a lot of black mold to develop in the building. And then the other thing that’s happening is at the structural studs in the walls, particularly in the school’s wood shop, which is at the back of the building. As that keeps rotting, the building’s becoming structurally unsound, to a point where architectural inspections and engineering reports say that the building, the back end of the building, at least, is just not safe for use.

KYUK: So it sounds like a really dire situation for Sleetmute school, but this project isn’t only focusing on Sleetmute. How did what you found in Sleetmute kind of carry you through to a bigger investigation in the state?

Schwing: I do a lot of my reporting from small communities in western Alaska and elsewhere, and I started noticing in the past few years, as I was staying in schools, that there were problems with infrastructure. There were problems with drinking water, and sewer lines, and how useful the bathrooms could be. I was in a school in Kivalina a few years ago, and the windows were wind blown to the point you couldn’t see out of them. I was smelling things in certain schools. I was in a school in Mertarvik last year where you could smell raw sewage, and then we actually found raw sewage. And I’ve been in schools where the power is unreliable. Up in Venetie, the phone doesn’t work in one part of the building. So I was just kind of noticing all of these problems with this public infrastructure, and then I started to really put those pieces together after I visited the Sleetmute school.

KYUK: So in this project, looking at school infrastructure, focusing on Western Alaska and other parts of the state, what did you find?

Schwing: Oh, I found all kinds of things, Sage. [laughter] I’m not laughing because it’s funny, I’m laughing because it’s overwhelming. In Venetie, I spent a lot of time – that school, it has a really strange layout. So there are three different attic spaces [and] I found uncovered electrical wiring. I found deteriorating insulation around pipes. I found a very persistent propylene glycol leak from the heating system. Let’s see, what else? You know, in Sleetmute, I had a little boy tell me that sometimes the ceiling tiles fall out of the ceiling while he’s sitting in his kindergarten classroom.

KYUK: So it sounds like there are a lot of pretty stark issues with schools throughout the state of Alaska. How did it get this bad?

Schwing: I’ll be really honest with you, Sage, I think it’s been this bad always, and the reason I say that is because when we gained statehood in 1959, lawmakers really wanted to establish a statewide public school system, and they really grappled with how to pay for it. They knew it was going to be expensive, but they also knew that there were a lot of places that either didn’t have schools, and if they did have schools they were schools that were operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), and those schools were known to have a lot of issues, a lot of the same issues that I’m telling you about today. So there was a push to unify our school system, because lawmakers didn’t want to have two separate tracks that could diverge, but taking over BIA schools was going to be really expensive and lawmakers were really grappling with this into the 1970s. One thing that really stood out to me was a transcript that I found from a 1971 Congressional hearing where then [United States] Sen. Mike Gravel, a Democrat, he described the conditions inside BIA schools and he said that many Alaska children, “go to school in buildings that should be condemned as fire traps or unsafe dwellings.” When I was reading this transcript, I really felt like he was describing some of the schools that I have been inside of today.

KYUK: So where did it go from there, then? That’s the 1980s, there’s been a pretty large stretch of time in between then and now. What happened after the the 1971 Congressional hearing you just spoke about and then the state taking over those BIA schools in the 80s?

Schwing: The BIA finally relinquished its schools to the state by the end of the 1980s, I think 1989 was the last year that those schools were transferred. And then after that, there was also a lawsuit about the same time called – well, it’s known as Tobeluk v. Lind, but it’s also known as the Molly Hootch case, and that case centered around accessibility. Molly Hootch is from Emmonak, and she was part of this case where a bunch of students got together and sued because they had to do high school by correspondence, so they were getting their assignments by mail and then mailing them back. So the argument there was that we are supposed to have access for all children to public school, mandated in our state constitution, and correspondence didn’t allow for that access. The next case after that really – so the Molly Hootch case was decided in favor of Molly Hootch, and then 126 public schools were built throughout rural Alaska and villages after that. In the 1990s there was another case, it’s known as the Kasayulie case, and this case was really precedent-setting for public school infrastructure and how the state funds it. So parents of students got together and filed this suit against the state, arguing that the way public schools were funded was unfair to rural communities because rural communities don’t have a tax base, so they don’t have a local government that can levy taxes and then pull from that tax revenue to cover the cost of public school infrastructure. That case was settled with a consent decree in 2011 and the judge did, in fact, say, ‘Yes, the state needs to rework the way it funds public school infrastructure.’ And there [are] two orders in that case, and in those orders the judge also described a lot of the conditions that I’m telling you about today.

KYUK: And then that was, what now, 14,15 years ago, but you’re still seeing a lot of the same things. So whose responsibility is this now?

Schwing: This is really the crux of all of this reporting, for me, is finding the accountability piece of this. So I’ve gone through state documents from the [Alaska] Department of Education, all of the requests from urban and rural school districts for funding dating back to 1998. At the same time, I’ve also gone through all of the ownership documents that I can find for public school buildings in rural communities, and what I’m finding is that there are 128 rural public schools that are open and operating today in Alaska, and the state owns just under half of those schools. In the [Alaska] Department of Education’s own regulations, it says that school districts have to get use permits for the buildings that they don’t own and essentially be a good tenant, right? Just as a renter and a landlord would make an agreement, the tenant, the school district in this case, has to take care of the building and its everyday functions, but the state is still fully responsible for construction and maintenance of the buildings. Those regulations are legally binding. They’re as strong as state law. So state law basically says that in the case of the buildings that are owned by the state, the state is responsible for funding investment in construction and maintenance.

KYUK: But that hasn’t been happening?

Schwing: No. The simple answer is no. The more complicated answer is, why not? We don’t really know, other than there is this constant, seemingly annual battle in the [Alaska] Legislature every year over how to fund education. I did talk to [Alaska Department of] Education Commissioner Deena Bishop about this very thing, and she says it’s not as simple as the state just has to pay for it. She’s waiting for money that comes from the [Alaska] Legislature’s decision on how to fund the state budget. And then it just starts to get more and more complicated from there, because the governor’s office wants one thing, and certain lawmakers want another, and then other lawmakers want this, and the [Alaska] Department of Education needs that, and we’re talking about just one agency among many agencies that are asking lawmakers for money every year.

KYUK: In this back and forth in the state legislature, between the governor’s office, between all these state agencies, what’s the impact on the schools themselves?

Schwing: The impact on the schools themselves is that school suffers. The actual education suffers. And I think that the experience of students, teachers, and staff who use these buildings every day also suffer. The money that would otherwise go to pay for things like textbooks, curriculum, whiteboards or smart boards, or actual tools for learning and teaching eventually goes to pay for things like the lumber that is temporarily holding up the back end of Sleetmute’s woodshop right now, and so school administrators are then tasked with figuring out what to cut. And at this point, they’re starting to decide whether they should cut a teacher’s aide or a whole class, a whole art class or a whole second language class. And that’s really where the suffering starts to happen, I think. And the other thing is, you know, like in the case of Sleetmute, there’s 25 people who use that school every day that are all sharing a single bathroom because the boys’ bathroom is also now closed. The gymnasium is in the section of the building that is structurally unsound. So on days when it’s 30 below zero [Fahrenheit] in Sleetmute, in the wintertime, which is typical for that part of Alaska, kids are stuck inside for recess, where they can play quiet games inside, but they can’t get their wiggles out on the playground. And so I think those are the parts of the impact of what’s really happening in Alaska schools that are often forgotten.

KYUK: What surprised you in the process of reporting this story?

Schwing: What surprised me the most is just how none of this seems to matter to my fourth grade friends, Loretta and Edward in Sleetmute, who took me on a tour of their school, and showed me their playground, and told me about how they like to go on YouTube after school. So what surprises me about this is you could be sitting in a classroom with a ton of water damage in your ceiling and the ceiling tiles falling down around you, and you are still so eager to learn. And I found that really just very heartening. It made me proud of all these little kids who just go to school every day.

KYUK: So this week we’re going to be hearing a series of stories from your investigation. What can people expect to hear from this KYUK reporting?

Schwing: We’re going to talk a lot about the health impacts and what we know can happen from long term exposure to things like a bat infestation, or black mold, or raw sewage. You’re also going to hear about exactly how hard school districts work to ask the state for money and the upfront financial investment that rural school districts are making in the hope of securing funds from the lawmakers, and then that never comes to fruition. We’re seeing projects that have waited for, you know, five years or more, then 10 years to be funded and still haven’t been funded. So you’ll hear a lot about that, and then you’re also going to hear about the current discussion in the legislative session that’s happening in Juneau right now, and what lawmakers are talking about funding versus what constituents are telling lawmakers they really need.

KYUK: What do you hope to hear from people in KYUK’s listening region, from people in communities in these rural education attendance areas?

Schwing: I really am interested in the origins of some of these buildings, particularly the Molly Hootch-era schools. I want to know if there are people who remember going to school in these buildings. I want to know if there are people who helped build them. I really am very interested in the history of those older schools in particular, but honestly, I also really would love to hear from people about what the school as a building really means to the community, because we’re not always just talking about a place where kids go to class and teachers teach those classes. We’re talking about a place that serves the community in so many different ways, from community gatherings, to spring carnivals, to basketball tournaments, to funerals, potlatches, you name it, Cama’i, there’s so many ways that this school serves a community, and so I would love to hear from people about why it’s important to them. And I always love hearing a good story. So if somebody has, like, a memory, or just a really meaningful story to them about being in school, I want to hear about it.

KYUK: How can people get those stories to you?

Schwing: They can email me at emily@kyuk.org, and you can call me at 907-545-6228.

KYUK: Thank you so much for sharing about your reporting, Emily, we’re excited to listen to this first installment of your project.

Schwing: Thanks for having me, Sage. I’m excited for you to hear it.

This project is a partnership between KYUK and ProPublica investigating rural school infrastructure and spending in Alaska. Support for this reporting also comes from the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism and its Fund for Reporting on Child Well-Being and the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism.

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Alaska House advances bill to boost free legal aid for vulnerable Alaskans

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Marten visits are a glimpse into mystery

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March 1, 2026

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Marten visits are a glimpse into mystery

A trapper fresh out of the Cosna River country in Interior Alaska said he can’t believe how many martens he had caught in a small area so far this winter.

Friends are talking about the house-cat size creatures visiting their wood piles and porches. Could this be a boom in the number of these handsome woodland creatures?

Since the late 1970s, the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute. Portions of this story appeared in 2000.

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Alaska Sports Scoreboard: Feb. 28, 2026

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March 1, 2026

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Basketball

Girls

Monday

Kenai Central 63, Nikiski 33

Colony 68, Grace Christian 46

Tuesday

South 33, East 22

Service 62, Dimond 47

Redington 47, Houston 17

Wasilla 60, Mountain City Christian Academy 44

Kenai Central 54, Homer 27

Bartlett 53, Chugiak 29

Mt. Edgecumbe 59, Sitka 50

Wednesday

Shishmaref 82, Aniguiin 34

Shaktoolik 73, Anthony Andrews 25

Savoonga 61, White Mountain 56

Glennallen 68, Nenana 26

Seward 72, Houston 8

Service 65, South 26

Brevig Mission 65, Koyuk Malimiut 47

Chief Ivan Blunka 67, Manokotak 30

Thursday

White Mountain 76, Anthony Andrews 50

Hoonah 44, Skagway 21

Koyuk Malimiut 53, Aniguiin 51

Nunamiut 74, Kali 17

Glennallen 25, Delta 20

Birchwood Christian 42, Nanwalek 24

Ninilchik 33, Lumen Christi 30

Dimond 59, Chugiak 54

Shaktoolik 57, Savoonga 24

Colony 43, Mountain City Christian 41

Alak 67, Meade River 66

Lathrop 42, West Valley 34

Seward 78, Nikiski 32

Grace Christian 56, Soldotna 41

Kenai Central 56, Houston 10

Wasilla 72, Palmer 27

Bristol Bay 55, Chief Ivan Blunka 30

Nome-Beltz 33, Bethel 24

Scammon Bay 46, Ignatius Beans 28

Aniak 83, Akiachak 45

Shishmaref 53, Brevig Mission 51

Metlakatla 64, Haines 21

Friday

Chief Ivan Blunka 68, Togiak 38

Meade River 80, Nuiqsut Trapper 34

Nunamiut 68, Alak 50

Cook Inlet Academy 33, Birchwood Christian 32

Meade River 71, Kali 46

Kalskag 62, Akiachak 47

Hoonah 39, Kake 37

Soldotna 36, Palmer 23

Delta 54, Valdez 45

Unalakleet 61, Chevak 45

Minto 46, Hutchison 26

West 71, Bartlett 65

Seward 63, Homer 19

North Pole 61, West Valley 25

Newhalen 78, Chief Ivan Blunka 40

Birchwood Christian 43, Nanwalek 28

Bethel 42, Nome-Beltz 35

Aniak 65, Tuluksak 50

Scammon Bay 49, St. Mary’s 38

Monroe Catholic 84, Galena 42

Ketchikan 57, Redington 24

Meade River 69, Alak 62

Fort Yukon 60, Jimmy Huntington 19

Grace Christian 50, Kenai Central 45

Shaktoolik 44, Shishmaref 34

Wrangell 44, Petersburg 31

Saturday

Unalakleet 41, Chevak 37

Meade River 54, Nunamiut 51

Monroe Catholic 68, Galena 32

Newhalen 32, Bristol Bay 26

Cook Inlet Academy 65, Birchwood Christian 32

Soldotna 55, Palmer 42

Nunamiut 48, Meade River 46

Boys

Sunday

SISD 51, Yakutat 18

Monday

Eagle River 54, Birchwood Christian 52

Colony 69, Grace Christian 64

Kenai Central 68, Nikiski 30

Tuesday

Susitna Valley 48, Lumen Christi 46

Dimond 54, Service 47

South 50, East 46

Houston 53, Redington 40

Wasilla 63, Mountain City Christian Academy 50

Kenai Central 74, Homer 47

Chugiak 66, Bartlett 45

Wednesday

SISD 59, Yakutat 17

Shishmaref 85, Savoonga 45

Hydaburg 58, Hoonah 51

Shaktoolik 103, Martin L Olson 49

Skagway 68, Gustavus 24

Davis-Romoth 108, Kobuk 31

Klawock 68, SISD 27

Glennallen 61, Nenana 57

Gambell 46, James C Isabell 31

South 63, Service 60

Seward 81, Houston 73

Bristol Bay 80, Chief Ivan Blunka 61

Mt. Edgecumbe 68, Sitka 59

Scammon Bay 79, Ignatius Beans 34

Brevig Mission 73, Aniguiin 67

Thursday

Savoonga 69, James C Isabell 61

Hoonah 64, Yakutat 45

Alak 88, Meade River 38

Shaktoolik 110, Brevig Mission 30

Chief Ivan Blunka 62, Tanalian 39

Nunamiut 66, Kali 48

Davis-Romoth 91, Buckland 45

Ninilchik 83, Lumen Christi 38

Monroe Catholic 43, North Pole 42

King Cove 57, Bristol Bay 41

Metlakatla 52, Haines 46

Nome-Beltz 62, Bethel 45

Skagway 79, Angoon 30

Birchwood Christian 69, Nanwalek 63

Dimond 60, Chugiak 57

Colony 75, Mountain City Christian Academy 49

Wasilla 66, Palmer 40

Klawock 63, Hydaburg 49

Shishmaref 58, Gambell 47

Grace Christian 63, Soldotna 52

Seward 66, Nikiski 51

Kenai Central 61, Houston 48

Nuiqsut Trapper 64, Alak 51

West Valley 51, Lathrop 44

Akiachak 83, Akiak 64

Scammon Bay 62, Marshall 54

Friday

Hoonah 71, SISD 38

Hydaburg 61, Kake 50

Chief Ivan Blunka 73, Bristol Bay 68

Kali 63, Meade River 45

Nunamiut 80, Nuiqsut Trapper 62

Service 58, East 50

Angoon 61, Hoonah 56

Cook Inlet Academy 73, Birchwood Christian 34

King Cove 75, Newhalen 39

Petersburg 53, Wrangell 20

Skagway 46, Klawock 43

Metlakatla 50, Haines 42

Nome-Beltz 71, Bethel 43

Juneau-Douglas 67, Tri-Valley 45

Wasilla 73, Chugiak 43

West 83, Bartlett 36

Colony 73, Kodiak 32

Delta 62, Valdez 54

West Valley 72, North Pole 46

Palmer 57, Soldotna 47

Nenana 55, Cordova 53

Chief Ivan Blunka 63, Manokotak 48

Scammon Bay 67, St. Mary’s 54

Unalakleet 87, Chevak 64

Shaktoolik 73, Shishmaref 54

Saturday

Unalakleet 95, Chevak 44

Cook Inlet Academy 95, Birchwood Christian 50

South 73, Eagle River 35

Palmer 45, Soldotna 40

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College

Hockey

Friday

UAF 2, UAA 0

Saturday

UAA vs. UAF (Late)

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Women’s basketball

Thursday

UAA 79, Western Oregon 58

Saint Martin’s 99, UAF 59

Saturday

Western Oregon 73, UAF 58

UAA vs. Saint Martin’s (Late)

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Men’s basketball

Thursday

Saint Martin’s 77, UAF 65

UAA 80, Western Oregon 59

Saturday

UAF 82, Western Oregon 74

UAA vs. Saint Martin’s (Late)

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NAHL

Friday

Anchorage Wolverines 5, Chippewa Steel 4

Saturday

Anchorage Wolverines vs. Chippewa Steel (Late)

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