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A district in South Carolina is looking for a student management software program, while a Oklahoma school system seeks newcomer student support services.

Schools have turned to Paper’s on-demand, online tutoring platform. But educators say the service can frustrate students and often goes unused by those who need the most help.

FAYETTE, Miss. – Most mornings, children are waiting beside the road with arms outstretched by the time driver Brian Hall pulls up in the decades-old yellow school bus. As he pulls away, the bus creaking along toward his next stop on winding dirt roads, they already are breaking the plastic open to begin eating the day’s offerings: barbecue chicken, fish sticks or turkey tacos with cartons of milk and cans of juice.  “You can tell they need the food by the way they react to the deliverie...

Where every kid needs lunch, school fights to feed them all LEAH WILLINGHAM, Associated Press/Report for America April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 18 1of18Jefferson County School District Department of Food Services staff member Raquel Mims-Cole, center, hands out several days of bagged lunches to a parent for his children on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 in Fayette, Miss. As one of the nations most food insecure counties, free breakfast and lunches are provided to students at school a...