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Tiny school district to close after losing state funding
Sat Nov 29 10:14:10 2008 CST
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By Jennifer Peebles
A rural Texas school district with just 70 students in grades K-12 is facing permanent closure after the state yanked its funding, the Abilene Reporter-Newssays.

The school in question is the Star Independent School District in Mills County. The system will be looking to its neighbors to educate its students after 2010:

"It is heartbreaking because I think small schools are good," said Bebe Harper Gault, who graduated from Star ISD in 1963 and taught math for 28 years at the century-old district in Mills County.


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