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Virginia Students in Subsidized Housing Often Have to Attend Low-Performing Schools
Posted by Nick Gilmore in Virginia's News on November 12, 2019
Credit: Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
As the price of housing skyrockets in areas with good schools, children who live in areas with low-cost housing are stuck with low-performing schools. Michael Pope reports.
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From NPR News- Hundreds Of Homes Flooded In Mississippi As More Rain Is Expected February 18, 2020The Pearl River crested at 36.7 feet in Jackson, Miss. — lower than feared. Flooding also hit parts of Tennessee, where one official said, "It is a chess match we're playing with Mother Nature."
- Trump Commutes Sentence Of Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich February 18, 2020The move would free Blagojevich, once seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party, from federal prison four years before he would have been eligible for parole and clear his convictions.
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- Hundreds Of Homes Flooded In Mississippi As More Rain Is Expected February 18, 2020
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- Storm Dennis: Fears for Severn towns amid fresh flood warnings February 18, 2020Residents in communities on the river are being evacuated as water threatens to top flood defences.
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- Michel Barnier: UK can't have Canada trade deal with EU February 18, 2020The chief negotiator says the UK's "particular proximity" to the bloc rules out a similar agreement.
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- Storm Dennis: Fears for Severn towns amid fresh flood warnings February 18, 2020
