Start of school a success for new first-grade teacher

Angela Simpson surveys her room a little nervously.

Over the last week, she's made the Yankee Ridge Elementary School classroom her own, putting in late nights organizing chairs and tables, setting up her desk, arranging all the school supplies and pictures of monkeys on the wall just so.

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