Schools' condition shocks teacher
URBANA – An Urbana woman who brought aid to out-of-work teachers after Hurricane Katrina says the nation needs to open its eyes to endemic poverty in Mississippi and Louisiana.
Urbana High School social worker and teachers union president Grace Mitchell spent four days in New Orleans, Jackson, Miss., and Baton Rouge, La., delivering money collected for out-of-work educators in those two states and viewing the destruction done by the storm, especially to the schools.
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