For nearly half a century, the children in the tiny village of Argelita, in Spain’s northeast, have been bused elsewhere for their education. The reason: There just weren’t enough kids for the town to qualify for a public school of its own. Hundreds of other Spanish villages have also lost schools, as families abandoned the countryside in search of better work. But now, Argelita has managed to reverse the trend. Reporter Gerry Hadden traveled there to find out how.
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