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Delta Council donation scrutinized
By JOHN MARTIN
Mon,09/08/03-11:00PM , 151 Reads
The Leflore County Board of Supervisors approved its annual contribution to Delta Council on Monday, but not without some of the scrutiny that marked last week's penny-pinching budget session.
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Fashion police
By JOHN MARTIN
Mon,09/08/03-11:00PM , 42 Reads
Rodric Evans, 8, gets a fashion adjustment from crossing guard Robert Jones at the corner of Johnson and Cotton streets this morning as, from left, brothers Danarius, 10, and Marcus Fleming, 9, watch. The children were on their way to Davis Elementary School.

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Some schools don't meet federal standards
By JOHN MARTIN
Mon,09/08/03-11:00PM , 59 Reads
A federal evaluation of Greenwood and Leflore County schools' test scores shows that students from radically different backgrounds and segments of the population are achieving.

But that's not the case at all the schools.
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AmeriCorps cuts affecting Delta schools
By JOHN MARTIN
Sat,09/06/03-11:00PM , 136 Reads
Last school year, James C. Rosser Elementary School in Moorhead depended on four volunteers to run an anti-tobacco program, teach physical education, offer extra-curricular activities and tutor underachieving students after school.

Those four people are gone this year, and with them, the programs they provided.
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