Fewer fish, fewer kids: St. Paul struggles to keep students

School enrollment in the Pribilof Islands has been shrinking in recent years, along with the islands’ fishing economy.
As the superintendent of one of Alaska’s smallest and most remote school districts, Connie Newman wears many hats. The Pribilof School District has 10 students at its school on St. George Island and 71 on St. Paul Island. The lightly inhabited, windswept islands sit 300 miles off Alaska’s west coast in the Bering Sea.
St. Paul students line up to stick the