{
  "id": 12142579,
  "title": "Empty classrooms on remote Greek island signal crisis across Europe",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/empty-classrooms-on-remote-greek-island-signal-crisis-across-europe",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-05T11:40:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3369816/empty-classrooms-remote-greek-island-signal-crisis-across-europe"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Chryssa Ntalaka’s classroom has become an object lesson in subtraction. The sole teacher in the last school on the idyllic Greek island of Kalamos has a shorter list of students every autumn. This year, just two. On September 23, the sixth graders sat at Ntalaka’s table beneath the whiteboard, in front of rows of unused desks and benches. When they head to middle school on Greece’s mainland next…",
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      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "On a remote Greek island, empty classrooms signal a crisis across Europe",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/on-a-remote-greek-island-empty-classrooms-signal-a-crisis-across",
        "published": "2026-10-05T04:19:04.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}