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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

Warm classrooms in the 60-year-old building would smell like urine, her co-workers told her. Rand recognized the classroom sets of literature books she studied from as a senior. Since 2003, public schools in the state have only been fully funded twice. Even if the students complained. Now they have pages missing.

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Climate change threatens America’s ragged school infrastructure

The Hechinger Report

Casagranda said in one classroom at Seward High School there’s a “huge leak in the ceiling panel.” A ceiling panel damaged by water inside a classroom at Seward High School, pictured in May 2021, is the result of a warranty issue that the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District maintenance team said it is working to resolve.

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