DECATUR, Ark. — When Ashlyn Siebert started looking last year for teaching jobs near Decatur — her rural hometown — she knew she wouldn’t make as much as a first-year teacher would 16 miles away in Bentonville, home to Walmart’s headquarters. This story also appeared in The 19th The story was the same in dozens […]
The South
The coronavirus pandemic hit communities hard in the rural Deep South, where schools are already among the most ill-resourced in the nation, well-paying jobs are few and necessities like Wi-Fi, public transportation and medical insurance are often out of reach. The Hechinger Report is investigating these problems and covering resiliency and innovation in communities fighting back against an education system that has yet to eradicate systemic racism and white supremacy.
