Seminole tribe has new charter school in Florida

This school would make any parent drool. Shiny new laptops. Lessons on iPods. Handpicked teachers. Even a cafeteria with the sleek lines of a Starbucks. But this top-of-the-line elementary school isn't in some well-heeled bit of suburbia. The Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School is on the Seminole Tribe's Brighton Reservation, deep in Florida cattle country, northwest of Lake Okeechobee. For the Seminoles, proprietors of a gambling empire, this is the school that slot machines built. It's steel-and-concrete proof of how far they've come -- from dismal poverty to great wealth

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