Tribal leaders announced a remote village school in southwest Alaska would be shut down until further notice after they banished the principal, and she and the faculty bugged out of town over the weekend on private planes, the Anchorage Daily News reports.

In a mess of jurisdictions, tribal leaders and tribal police went into Chief Paul Memorial School in Kipnuk to banish the principal, who was unnamed in the report, for an unknown reason.  Reportedly, the principal locked herself in her office after community leaders and tribal police searched for her at faculty housing on Friday.  Someone called Alaska State Police, who arrived by air the next day, only to be greeted by community members and tribal police blocking their access to the village.

After deescalating that situation, the state police investigated but found no laws had been broken.  The principal and all the teachers, who lived in housing provided by the school district, flew away from the town Saturday in two planes chartered by the school district.  The district is now figuring out how to remotely educate the scores of pupils it services.