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Les High
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Publisher, Border Belt Independent
North Carolina, Whiteville
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Tenant Organizing , City Politics , Housing , Homelessness , Street Vending
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By Les High|Border Belt IndependentBy Ben Rappaportbenrappaport@borderbelt.org Nearly 200 students from wealthier families are using taxpayer-funded vouchers to attend private schools this year in Bladen, Columbus, Robeson and Scotland counties, data shows. The 198 students in the Border Belt region were eligible for vouchers because North Carolina lawmakers last year removed the income limit for Opportunity Scholarships.
By Les High|Border Belt IndependentBy Les HighBlack inventors and innovators like George Washington Carver, who developed hundreds of uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes, and Lewis Latimer, who invented a long-lasting carbon filament for light bulbs, helped change the world. Scores of other Black inventors, including men with local ties like the late Sanford Thurmanand Vincent Spaulding, may have been close to making it big, but like many others, they found the road to riches fraught with peril.
By Les High|Border Belt IndependentBy Ben Rappaportbenrappaport@borderbelt.org Nearly 200 students from wealthier families are using taxpayer-funded vouchers to attend private schools this year in Bladen, Columbus, Robeson and Scotland counties, data shows. The 198 students in the Border Belt region were eligible for vouchers because North Carolina lawmakers last year removed the income limit for Opportunity Scholarships.
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Border Belt Independent