Inside the Schools Alaska Ignored

KYUK reporter Emily Schwing investigated conditions in deteriorating public schools in Alaska 's rural villages.

The responsibility for school repairs in many rural villages rests exclusively on the state Legislature .

State officials have largely ignored hundreds of requests by rural school districts to fix the problems that have left public schools crumbling, even though the state owns these buildings.

Public schools in rural Alaska also serve an emergency management function that is often overlooked.

KYUK delivered the story in the Yup’ik dialect of Yugtun , which is the predominant dialect spoken on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta .

The vast majority of KYUK ’s audience is Indigenous.