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🌱 How Elizabethtown’s growing charter schools tie into East Arcadia’s closure

Elizabethtown, North Carolina Patch AM: a 3 min read

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  • How Elizabethtown’s growing charter schools tie into East Arcadia’s closure

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📰 News we're reading

• In Some Parts of N.C., Majority-Black Public Schools Are First on the Chopping Block (theassemblync.com) — Families in and around Elizabethtown are seeing major school changes, with East Arcadia School closing and some students reassigned to Bladen Lakes Primary and other campuses in Elizabethtown and Clarkton. The story details how declining enrollment, facility neglect, and growing local charter schools in Elizabethtown have shaped these decisions, and why many Black residents feel the closures continue a long pattern of inequity.
   

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