Lauded teacher opens school in Atlanta

Ron Clark, a teacher whose story was chronicled last year in a made-for-cable-TV movie, is opening a private $3.5-million, state-of-the-art schoolhouse in one of the poorest sections of Atlanta. More than 350 students applied to the Ron Clark Academy, where flat-screen TVs are mounted in bathrooms, graffiti art fills the walls and a secret passageway leads to Clark's classroom. Sixty fifth- and sixth-graders will get a middle school education like no other.

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