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$82.5 Million Schools Request Riles Goldsboro, N.C., Council.

By Martha Quillin, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 27--GOLDSBORO, N.C. -- At Goldsboro High School, in the city's center, enrollment is so far below capacity that a golf cart could motor through the hallways during class changes with room to spare.

In some schools in Wayne County, students are so crowded they don't have room to learn.

The contrast is black and white.

The years-long debate over the racially divided system has been reignited in recent weeks by the Wayne County school board'

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