WINSTON-SALEM — Appalachian State University is in its fourth week of school at a state-mandated laboratory school it launched in Winston-Salem this year.
The Academy at Middle Fork is a public school and partnership between the Reich College of Education at ASU and Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools that serves kindergarten through fifth grades.
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