On a Thursday afternoon in early April, two young women addressed the school board in East Tennessee’s rural McMinn County. Both were raised in families ...

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This story was originally published by Journalism Lab. Visitors to the woods surrounding China Hat Road may recognize Zachary “Zack” Polton’s yellow school bus through the trees that line the road to ...