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A rural school district in Arkansas was bleeding $250k every year. Teachers were paid $45,000 a year and leaving for any job that paid more. So they installed 1,400 solar panels. Three years later, the Batesville School District had flipped the deficit into a $1.8 million surplus. The school board voted to put the savings into paychecks. Teachers got raises of up to $15,000 and stayed in their jobs. The district went from one of the lowest-paying in Arkansas to one of the best-paying in its county. Resignations slowed. More than 20 other districts in the region have since copied the model. Superintendent Michael Hester's line, in one interview: "Out of desperation comes innovation." There are nine thousand solar-powered schools in the United States now, serving six million students. Batesville was the first one to turn the savings into teacher salaries. It won't be the last. A rural school that couldn't keep teachers figured out how to pay them more by not paying the power company. And that, as the kids say, slaps.

My biggest takeaway from NBA Playoff basketball so far is defensively tilted perimeter players who are little threats to score the basketball are not viable in this current postseason environment. Given the shifts in size, with teams leaning into double big or true C and PF sized lineups, you can't afford to play 4v5 on offense in the playoffs. There's too much help in the gaps, in the paint, too many bodies for someone to have to beat off the dribble to create a shot. If teams double, that skip pass has to go to a viable scorer, or else you're just bleeding possessions away.

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This photo may have just single-handedly ruined the Masters’ 92-year-old reputation

Easter Eve is a holiday I invented in my head where you get real banged up and rise again like jesus on Easter Sunday.