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What happens when two separate and unequal school districts merge?

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There are pockets of poverty in the county that rival the Delta while Starkville is, by comparison, a wealthy town,” he said. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014. Closing the school meant the district had to reshuffle students into existing elementary schools. I struggled at first just to keep up.”.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” Via the Future of Privacy Forum : “ Law Enforcement Access to Student Records : What Is the Law?”