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==Education== Delaplaine is served by the [[Greene County Tech School District]] (GCT district)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st05_ar/schooldistrict_maps/c05055_greene/DC20SD_C05055.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Greene County, AR|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=May 12, 2023}}</ref> and its schools in [[Paragould, Arkansas]], including [[Greene County Tech High School]]. For many years, Delaplaine was home to the [[Delaplaine School District]], which included Delaplaine (in the rural northwest of Greene County), O'Kean (in the rural southeast of Randolph County),<ref name=OKean>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/okean-randolph-county-7219/|title=O'Kean|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia of Arkansas]]|publisher=[[Central Arkansas Library System]]|accessdate=March 5, 2021}} - It states O'Kean schools consolidated into Delaplaine schools.</ref> and the town of Peach Orchard in Clay County.<ref name=Heardtroub>{{cite web|last=Heard|first=Kenneth|url=https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2011/jul/04/postal-closures-trouble-tiny-towns-20110704/|title=Postal closures trouble tiny towns|newspaper=[[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]]|date=July 4, 2011|accessdate=May 15, 2023}} - The article says Peach Orchard schools consolidated into Delaplaine's.</ref> In 2003, the [[Arkansas Legislature]], supported by then-Governor [[Mike Huckabee]], passed Act 60, an act that required every school district in the state that had a daily enrollment of less than 350 students to be consolidated with another school district.{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}} As a result, on July 1, 2004, the Delaplaine School District was consolidated with the GCT district.<ref name=Consolfrom1983>"[http://www.arkansased.gov/public/userfiles/Legal/ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150912013154/http://www.arkansased.gov/public/userfiles/Legal/ConsolidationAnnex_from_1983.xls |date=2015-09-12 }}." [[Arkansas Department of Education]]. Retrieved on April 25, 2018.</ref> [[Delaplaine High School]] and Delaplaine Elementary School initially remained open under the jurisdiction of the GCT district, to serve students in the former Delaplaine district area,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041208210043/http://www.gctsd.k12.ar.us/display/DLP-hs/ Home]. Delaplaine High School. December 8, 2004. Retrieved on April 25, 2018.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041208205249/http://www.gctsd.k12.ar.us/display/DLP-ele/ Home]. Delaplaine Elementary School. December 8, 2004. Retrieved on April 25, 2018.</ref> however, they were later closed in 2007. Delaplaine mayor Larry Myrick stated that the community lost children with families after the school stopped operations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kait8.com/story/29091669/rural-arkansas-struggles-after-schools-close|title=Rural Arkansas struggles after schools close|publisher=[[KAIT]]|date=May 18, 2005|accessdate=April 25, 2018}}</ref>
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