Judge decries state of education in rural Alaska

From The Anchorage Daily News: Alaska's oversight of rural schools is so flawed that a state judge is threatening to step in and appoint someone to take over in order to bring to students the basic education the judge says they are being denied. In the 450-student Yupiit School District in Southwest Alaska, for example, only a third of third-graders are proficient in reading, writing and math. The other districts at the bottom of the performance charts are Lower Yukon, Yukon Flats, Yukon-Koyukuk and the Northwest Arctic Borough.