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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Nebraska School Shrinks to the Point of Closure (NPR)

From the One Room School Series (NPR News):

In the spring of 2006, Glen School in Sioux County, Nebraska was closed.

At one time, more than 100 families lived within walking distance of the school. But it takes ever larger ranches to make a cattle operation sustainable these days, so fewer people are left nearby.

By 2006 at the school, there were only two students left, Luke and Travis. The school board made the painful decision to shut down the rural school. After 120 years, there would be no school in Glen. The boys would finish in town.

Neenah Ellis reports.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5524946

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