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Yet hard times during the Depression also meant improvement for rural schools. Large school districts were consolidated and made cost effective. Educational reformers forced state governments to bear a larger share of the costs of maintaining rural schools. Declining rural populations meant available resources were shared by fewer students. For rural migrants, however, a move from the homestead to agriculturally productive regions such as California or Florida often ended their formal education. Migrant agricultural workers remained unschooled or poorly schooled well into the 1970s.
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