Freshman Ana R. Matos is a staff writer for Wingspan magazine. She enjoys writing stories and reading anything fiction.
![“Because of the lack of property values in [Potosi], set up by the state legislature 20 years ago, our school district receives a large percentage of our expenditures, not from local revenue, but from the state,” Greg Kester, a social studies teacher at
Potosi High School and the Missouri Teacher of the Year in 2024, said.](https://nixajournalism.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Editorial-Edited-1200x800.jpg)
