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  • Changing Course: Coal Country Students Working For A Power Switch

    Benny Becker

    March 09, 2018 |

    Ohio Valley ReSource |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    As coal jobs become increasingly rare, schools in Kentucky are facing rising electricity prices and declining tax rates. Through innovative class work and partnerships with solar installation companies, local students are leading the movement to develop a new energy economy, and they are getting results. One teenager, the daughter of a former coal miner, noted, "[The coal industry is] dying down and...there definitely needs to be something there to back it up."

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  • Changing Course: A School Cooperative Aims To Remake Coal Communities

    Benny Becker Jeff Young Mary Meehan

    November 25, 2017 |

    WOUB Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Stanville, Kentucky

    In the rural, rugged country of Appalachia, towns like Stanville face some of the country’s most profound economic and public health problems. Some of these communities, however, are making remarkable strides against these challenges with the help of the Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative, which makes schools a central pillar with entrepreneurial, innovative curricula, provision of health care resources, and hope and opportunity are restored in the post-coal era.

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