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Literacy and Line Dancing: A Community Collaborates in Education
This Las Vegas school harnesses parents, businesspeople, and retirees for academic and financial support and to staff after-school programs. More to this story.
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Running Time: 7 min.
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Produced, Written, and Directed by
- Ken Ellis
Associate Producers:
- Roberta Furger
- Miwa Yokoyama
Editor:
- Karen Sutherland
Camera Crew:
- Rob Weller
- Jeremy Settles
Narrator:
- Kris Welch
Original Music:
- Ed Bogas
- © 2004
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
- All rights reserved.
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Editor's Note: Carlos Garcia moved on from the Clark County School District in 2005. He now serves as superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District. Former C.P. Squires principal Carol Lark has also left the Clark County School District, and is now superintendent of a school district in Northern Nevada.
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