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The U.S. State Department reports Equatorial Guinea is notorious for human rights violations, including torture and arbitrary arrest.

A hotel in Equatorial Guinea has become a de facto prison for 29 men and women deported from the U.S.

Witnesses and lawyers state two men deported by the U.S. to Equatorial Guinea were hooded, bound, and beaten by police at a hotel.

Joplin High School has facilities including a restaurant, a black-box theater, an auto-body-work training area, and 'think tanks'.

C.J. Huff stated that he frames his advice to others as 'Do as I say, not as I did'.

Joplin High School's hallways display wood sculptures made by artists from trees destroyed in the tornado.

A few weeks before the article's writing, C.J. Huff was planning to travel to central Pennsylvania to meet a superintendent whose school was hit by a tornado in August.

C.J. Huff and his wife founded their own company in 2024 to assist superintendents after disasters.

The floors of the former chicken-processing plant where C.J. Huff works are slanted, a feature from its original construction to allow chicken blood to drain.

Social and behavioral scientist Abramson stated it is 'mystifying' that public officials do not imitate Joplin's school reopening plan.

Advice: C.J. Huff encourages school leaders to listen more than talk and to 'take the hero cape off'.

Mariah Vazquez stated she would not be a professional photographer today without the career academy project.

A former student named Eldred stayed in the Joplin area and works at McDonald's.

Mariah Vazquez's home was destroyed in the Joplin tornado and she entered the new high school when it opened in 2014.

Fact: In Joplin, educational metrics, including graduation rates, improved after the tornado.

Fact: Two decades after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans's school system reforms prompted academic gains but also deepened some inequities.

C.J. Huff works in a co-working space located in a former chicken-processing plant in downtown Springfield.

Fact: A school-consolidation plan proposed after 2016 flooding in Nicholas County, W.Va., led to years of debate and eventual resignations.

Fact: The acting New Orleans superintendent, Jarvis, resigned less than two years after Hurricane Katrina.

Fact: Lahaina's elementary school, located in a tsunami zone, had been in the same spot since before Hawaii became a state.