Mark O. Badger reports on the challenges facing Alaska's rural communities and how the Molly Hootch lawsuit changed education in rural Alaska by arguing that students be able to attend high school in their home villages. Those interviewed include: Molly Hootch of Emmonak; Marshall Lind, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Education; Don Smith, Anchorage assemblyman; Alfred Karmun of Deering; Katherine Mills and Ida Kadashan of Hoonah; unidentified Mt. Edgecumbe High School students; George White, superintendent of the Northwest Arctic School District; unidentified schoolchild; Calvin Moto of Deering; Dr. Judith Kleinfeld of Fairbanks, with the University of Alaska; Dr. Ray Barnhardt of Fairbanks, with the University of Alaska; Marty Zelonky, assistant administrator of the Northwest Arctic School District; Katherine McNamara of McGrath, educator; Enoch Adams of Kivalina, member of the School Board Advisory Committee; Calvin Baker, principal of the Kivalina School; Lowell Sage, Jr., student; and David Watkins, teacher. The program contains views of Emmonak, Kodiak, Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka, Deering High School, the Kivalina School, and drawings and photos and films of early village life and schools in Alaska. The program also contains Public Service Announcements (PSAs) about electrical safety and pneumonia.