Sentences with phrase «attend schools in rural areas»

The report points out that rural America is far poorer than metropolitan areas and that nearly one in four U.S. schoolchildren attends school in a rural area.

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«Rural schools face unique issues and I want to ensure that pupils that attend them have the same opportunities as children in other areas.

However, I would encourage you to speak with students attending schools in various areas (rural, city) in order for you to make the best decision for your needs.

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Students from high schools with the highest concentrations of Hispanic students and those located in rural areas, as well as students whose parents have less formal education, experience the largest increases in four - year bachelor's degree completion (4 to 8 percentage points) and in the likelihood of attending a college with a Barron's ranking of «most competitive.»

Similar findings were reported in the Plowden Report in England, which compared children from the informal schools of rural areas with children who attended the more formal schools of urban centers.

Using Census Bureau classifications, we group students into three categories according to the location of the school they attended in 3rd grade: 1) a large or midsize city, 2) suburbia (specifically, the urban fringe of a large or midsize city), and 3) towns and rural areas.

And for many low - income students, traveling outside their county or district to attend school every day — especially in rural areas — is not feasible.

We welcome articles on serving immigrant students, ELLs, and homeless youth; solutions for resource shortages in rural areas; and supports for low - income students who attend relatively affluent suburban schools.

PARSS began in 1983 as a group of public school superintendents who expressed concern that Pennsylvania students in rural and small school districts did not have access to the same quality of education afforded to students attending school in the more metropolitan areas of the state.

Many London schools operate thriving after - schools clubs but, as Les Ebdon, the Director of the Office for Fair Access, notes, many pupils in rural areas live too far away from their schools to attend these; broadband provision is often dire, too.