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Following a lengthy investigation into its bus driver shortage and transportation challenges, Rapid City Area Schools revealed its findings and solutions at a recent school board meeting. District Chief Financial Officer Coy Sasse said one of the key changes will be reducing the number of bus stops available. The current number of bus stops is 467; the proposed number is 359.

1 day ago | rapidcityjournal.com | Matt Weiner

As her black Chevy Tahoe slithered around hairpin turns toward Pine Ridge Reservation, Sarah White reflected on how a $100,000 grant from the Boulder Fund will help the South Dakota Education Equity Coalition continue is work improving the lives of Indigenous youth. White, Oglala Lakota, founded the nonprofit in 2019 to help improve graduation and job rates for Indigenous students through increased support and opportunity.

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1 day ago | rapidcityjournal.com | Eileen Ogintz

Let's hear it for ambitious kids!A 12-year-old boy named Hussein was desperate to get a job on Englishman Howard Carter's archaeological dig in Luxor, Egypt. It was 1922 and Carter was struggling. For years, he'd been searching unsuccessfully for the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, the "boy king," who died as a teenager. His patron, George Herbert, the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, and an avid collector of Egyptian antiquities, told Carter he was cutting off his funding after the season.