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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

Osborn, who graduated from Clinton in 2005 and returned five years ago to teach history at the high school, said the benefits of Clinton’s plan stuck out to him even as a kid. Sumner Hill Junior High, now the district’s ninth-grade school, used to be a majority-black school before the district incorporated it into its zone.

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The ‘Katrina-to-Covid Class’: How the coronavirus era affects New Orleans students more acutely

The Hechinger Report

High School in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward. Sometimes I walk or ride by rundown houses or empty lots filled with weeds and I think, ‘There’s a history back there. Sometimes I walk or ride by rundown houses or empty lots filled with weeds and I think, ‘There’s a history back there. What would it have been like without Katrina?’”.