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Articles by Marla Misek
Imagine you’re a high school senior wanting to pursue a medical career, but you live in a rural community in north-central British Columbia. Your school doesn’t have the human or financial resources to offer the preparatory classes you need to get into college, and the nearest school teaching them is hundreds of miles away. The 6,000-plus students of Nechako Lakes School District No. 91 (SD91, www.sd91.bc.ca/sd91)—a roughly 27,000-square-mile area encompassing 21 schools and eight communities with populations ranging from several hundred to several thousand residents—know challenges like these all too well.
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