From The Newsroom: Exchange Student Buddies, Bitcoin-Loving Politicians

KERA | By Courtney Collins

Published August 13, 2014 at 6:52 PM CDT

Arron Cao, 17, and Sam Wang, 16, just arrived from Shanghai, China. They'll be attending high school at International Leadership of Texas, a Garland charter school.

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Twenty new students are settling in at International Leadership of Texas, a Garland charter school. They just arrived from China and they’ll have existing student mentors. And for the first time this election season some candidates are accepting bitcoins as campaign donations.

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Courtney Collins

Courtney Collins has been working as a broadcast journalist since graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 2004. Before coming to KERA in 2011, Courtney worked as a reporter for NPR member station WAMU in Washington D.C. While there she covered daily news and reported for the station’s weekly news magazine, Metro Connection.

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