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A Funding Cut to a Literacy Program Hits the Most Vulnerable in Small Missouri Town
By losing its federal funding, the organization lost almost all its means to provide continuing education that fed into local economic development. For some of its…
The Wonderful Company’s Wonderful Schools
Students at two public charter schools in California’s poor Central Valley excel at undersea robots, mariachi, soccer drones, raising crops, and make a jumpstart on college.
Finding the City of Lost Hills
California's agricultural Central Valley—so rich in output, so poor in median income—is the focal point of trends in immigration, in education, in political trends, in…