Non-traditional student helps guide teens with work

Lavanna Under Baggage, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, is pursuing her bachelor’s degree online while balancing working full time and being a mother of four. Read how online education allows her to pass her culture on to her kids from her hometown.

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Fiber Makes OLC CLassrooms ‘SMART’

Fiber Makes OLC CLassrooms ‘SMART’

Maria Cuny lives in the middle of the Badlands in a remote area on the eastern side of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Her home sits six miles off the main road on gumbo soil. “I live in a very rural area,” Cuny says. “If I don’t have to, I don’t drive. I don’t like to be on the road.”

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New School on the Prairie

New School on the Prairie

The Central Meade County School is one of five rural schools in Meade County. The newly built school sits 46 miles northeast of Sturgis and combines students in grades K-8 previously split by grade between Union Center and Enning five miles further east.

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