Rural Districts Pursue Elusive Capital Funding

Leadville, Colo.

Pam Simms has a hard time explaining the gaping hole in the roof of the West Park Elementary School library where she works to the dozens of kindergartners and 1st and 2nd graders who visit each day.

In a nearby classroom, 1st grade teacher Patricia Stout hopes each day that she won't have to move students to one side of the room because of a leaky window or falling ceiling tiles. Across the hall, a portion of the ceiling caved in last year, two...

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