Study: To hire and keep teachers in remote Alaska, school districts need to pay a lot more

The Pledge of Allegiance, translated into Inupiaq, on the wall of the special education classroom in Kivalina's McQueen School on Dec. 12, 2012.

The study uses data from a contract the university had with the state’s education department during the administration of former Gov. Bill Walker. Berman said the researchers are currently taking a look at more recent data and finding similar, but magnified results after the pandemic. “That’s just beyond the capacity of all rural districts, really, except possibly the North Slope Borough,” he said. He noted that they do pay teachers more there, though not in the $120,000-a-year range, as far as he knew.Study results said that one in five of the state’s schools would need to pay teachers 25%-50% more to hire and keep them, especially in the western and northern parts of the state.

So even if the state’s school funding formula gives a rural school more money, it may not be enough to cover the higher operations costs and offer salaries that would be competitive for the region.

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