Even Governor Jay Hammond recognized that there were isolated villages in which village schools could not work.  Elders and parents in such villages fought against education in English and math:  they did not want village children to be capable of competing in the Alaska money economy.  So state funded schools became a criminal JOKE by becoming dancehalls and recreation centers ... instead of schools. 

Charles Wohlforth has written that "struggling schools" exist.  This is totally false.
What exists are criminally incompetent AK DOE administrators, venal BUSH POLS, and BUSH parents who have no interest in having children educated in English and math.

Leaders in the Y-K Health Corp have balatanty admitted such sick truth:  education in math and English and good Donlin mine jobs ARE BAD FOR THE VILLAGERS??!!
The State of Alaska could improve delivery of education by setting up regional boarding schools in school districts like Nome, Bethel, Fairbanks, Palmer, Sitka, and Juneau.