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As Colorado voters consider a new education funding mechanism with Amendment, a decade-old law in Alaska is closing rural schools. On this episode of Sounds of the High Country, KDNK Radio’s collaboration with the High Country News, KDNK’s Eric Skalac talks to Krista Langlois.
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by Eric Skalac, High Country News
November 1, 2013