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welcome to Alaska edition a weekly public affairs program produced by Alaska public media in the studios of kak mne hello and welcome to Alaska edition I'm your host zakaria hughes today we're talking about closing rural schools and what impacts that might have for communities and state budgets influential members of the legislature have started talking about possibly raising the state's minimum number of students that it takes to qualify for state education funding currently that number is 10 10 students to keep a school open though there's not yet a concrete proposal out advocates say that with the state facing a dire revenue shortfall the legislature needs to respond to how it Hayes for education critics say the change could close more than 60 schools in small communities disproportionately hurting rural Alaskans for the sake of modest short term savings I'm lucky to be joined today by a crowded table full of guests David nice is a retired school teacher with the Anchorage School Di