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When local school districts aren’t performing, parents typically turn to school boards or parent-teacher organizations to bring about change. But in one small Fresno County city, education advocates are thinking bigger, trying to enact a much bolder and more ambitious kind of transformation. It’s 8 a.m. in the city of Huron and the Chevron on Lassen Avenue is bumping. Between drivers filling their tanks, cashier Lydia Ramirez serves kids loading their backpacks with breakfast burritos, candy, and pizza. These kids are on their way to the middle school down the street. But high school students? Ramirez says they hardly ever come in. “I don’t see them in the morning,” Ramirez says. “They have to get their bus. They have to get up early.” Her 16-year-old daughter is one of them. She wakes up at 5 a.m. for a bus ride that lasts over an hour. Her high school is 20 miles away—in Coalinga. The cities share the Coalinga-Huron Unified School District. Ramirez says it’ll be a relief when her
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