Emily Schwing

Alaska's public schools can serve as emergency shelters. The buildings are in crisis

Emily Schwing

Alaska's public schools are being used as emergency shelters, though many of the buildings are crumbling.

Alaska ignored budget crisis signs. Now, it doesn't have money to fix schools

Emily Schwing

Alaska has long ignored warning signs of a budget crisis. Now, it has no money to fix something that is posing serious health and safety risks to students and staff: crumbling rural schools.

Rural schools in Alaska are crumbling. The state is the likely culprit.

Emily Schwing

Rural school districts depend on the state to fund construction and maintenance projects. But over the past 25 years, Alaska lawmakers have ignored hundreds of requests for public schools that primarily serve Indigenous children.

Deb Haaland's push to protect Indigenous people disappoints some Native leaders

Emily Schwing

As a member of Congress, she passed a bill to hold the executive branch accountable for persistent violent crime in Native communities. Now she's a Cabinet secretary, but she's saying little about it.