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September 10, 2014
WARM SPRINGS, Ore. — New, beautiful schools tend to look a lot alike. There's the entrance with lots of windows, which invite not only light but also help enhance security. Classrooms are centered on open areas, where students can collaborate and move around, while smart boards and projectors have replaced chalk and dusty erasers.
The new Warm Springs K-8 Academy, which will open this fall and host about 675 students from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, has all these features and many more, embracing scores of contemporary ideas in school design. But the school, which is replacing a campus of aging buildings and trailers abutting U.S. Highway 26, stands apart, and not only for its location perched above the Deschutes River.
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