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CHARLESTON, S.C. — As principal of North Charleston High School in South Carolina, an area where 20 percent of residents live in poverty, Henry Darby was used to seeing students in need. “There were some kids who, when I went to their homes, their mother wouldn’t let me in, but I could see that the home was dark — they had […]

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