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PBS NewsHour | Oil Brings Student Boom and Schools Struggle to Accommodate | PBS

Duration: 09:07
Program: PBS NewsHour #10455
Broadcast Date: Sep. 27, 2012

As people flock to Williston, N.D., for jobs in the booming oil industry, the public systems struggle to keep up, converting one-room school houses to accommodate the rapid rise in student enrollment. Like much of Williston's infrastructure, there are financial hurdles to meet needs of teachers and students. Ray Suarez reports.

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