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Children's Shelter Submits Application to Establish Charter School

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If all goes according to plan, the NWA Children's Shelter hopes to start taking applications for its trauma-informed charter school in January 2020.
Z. Sitek

The Northwest Arkansas Children's Shelter is in the process of establishing a charter school that would cater especially to children who have experienced trauma. We learn more about the effort, which would become the first trauma-informed school in the state, and one of only a handful in the country.

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