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Alaska's Diversity Is Everywhere, and It Isn't Moving
At East Anchorage High School, students speak roughly 50 native languages. Across the district, 112 languages show up on home-language surveys. Anchorage is, by several measures, one of the most racia...
Six Alaska Districts Have Fewer Than 100 Students
The school in Pelican enrolls 16 students. The entire district is one building, on an island in the Gulf of Alaska accessible only by floatplane or state ferry. There is no road to Pelican. There is n...
Half of Alaska's Districts Hit Record Lows
In Sleetmute, a village of 80 people on the Kuskokwim River, an architect declared the school building unsafe for occupancy in 2021. The foundation had deteriorated to rubble. The Kuspuk School Distri...