Several rural school districts in northeast Texas have been besieged by both rumors and reporters following the announcement that 6 of 197 students in one area high school tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.
Not exact matches
One of the three lawyers representing 36
rural school districts and
several individuals that sued the state in 1993, Mr. Morrison and his colleagues have spent the past 16 months arguing in this small - town...
Several members of an American Indian tribe in
rural South Dakota are suing the local
school district in federal court, claiming its method for electing board members discriminates against Native Americans by weakening their voting power.
Elimination of the regulations raises
several concerns for
school districts, including potential pass - through costs associated with data - heavy digital learning initiatives; a less innovative education technology environment based on potential discriminatory pricing for new market entrants; and heightened pricing and other vulnerabilities for
rural and high cost
districts that may only have access to a single broadband carrier.
In
several of the higher - performing
districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as
rural districts), for example,
district leaders and
school personnel described recent and ongoing
district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instruction.
The county education agency, who already provides services for
school districts, will interview and select substitute teachers for Prescott USD, Chino Valley USD, Mayer USD, Bagdad USD, Camp Verde USD, Ash Fork JUSD, Seligman USD and
several other
rural districts, as well as
schools within the Verde Valley.
Stakeholder feedback identified
several components to consider when researching this option, including: finding opportunities in
rural and / or low income
school districts, finding opportunities in
school districts experiencing difficulty in attracting and retaining staff for identified positions, opportunities to practice co-teaching, and possible participation in or exposure to professional learning communities (in -
district, or regional).»
Key examples include Cawelti and Protheroe's (2001) study of change in six
school districts in four states; Snipes, Dolittle and Herlihy's (2002) case studies of improvement in four urban
school systems and states; Massell and Goertz's (2002) investigation of standards - based reform in 23
school districts across eight states; McLaughlin and Talbert's (2002) analysis of three urban or metropolitan area California
districts; Togneri and Anderson's (2003) investigation of five high poverty
districts (four urban, one
rural) from five states; and
several single - site case studies of
district success (e.g., Hightower, 2002; Snyder, 2002).