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North Carolina School Builds Community Despite The Pandemic

Lakewood Elementary bilingual volunteer Julie Mendoza Grubbs greeting families by phone. (Liz Schlemmer)
Lakewood Elementary bilingual volunteer Julie Mendoza Grubbs greeting families by phone. (Liz Schlemmer)

Teachers and volunteers at a school in Durham, North Carolina, are taking extra steps to communicate with students and their parents during the pandemic. They’re providing bilingual information, tech help and sometimes a hot meal.

Liz Schlemmer of WUNC reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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