Sentences with phrase «benefit rural schools»

Our input has led to the creation of bills and policies that directly benefit rural schools and led to the defeat of others that would have put us at a disadvantage.

WCAX - TV reports Democratic Chairman Senator Dick Sears says the plan could especially benefit rural schools where police are often far away.

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There are precious few schools following this model, but American society would benefit from more of them, and from their being more accessible to a wider socioeconomic demographic range in urban, suburban, and rural settings.»

Throughout Vermont an increasing number of schools benefit from universal free meals, including small schools in the rural counties of the Northeast Kingdom, some schools in Burlington, the entire Winooski school district and the entire Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union.

Pupils across Wales are set to benefit from a new # 2.5 million Welsh Government small and rural schools grant announced today by Welsh Liberal Democrat Cabinet Secretary for Education Kirsty Williams.

This is a big benefit to suburban and rural school districts - especially those on Long Island.

Luo says these and other findings helped convince the central government in 2011 to establish a school lunch program now benefiting 20 million rural students daily.

A unique benefit of the school's rural location, Rearick reports, is that the active church life of the residents promotes strong families.

Benefits are particularly large for students from rural areas and from high - poverty schools.

For example, with our limited number of school groups we can not know whether minority students, female students, younger students, low - income students, or rural students receive different benefits from seeing live theater.

Having flexible plan options can give mobile teachers, especially in urban and rural public schools where turnover is high, more secure retirement benefits.

The UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy — supported by the Government of the People's Republic of China and dedicated to literacy work benefitting rural populations and out - of - school youth, particularly girls and women — is awarded to laureates in South Africa, India, and Senegal: The South African Department of Basic Education for its Kha Ri Gude Mass Literacy Campaign; the Jan Shikshan Sansthan organization in Kerala, India, for its programme, Vocational Skill Development for Sustainable Development, and the Directorate of Literacy and National Languages in Senegal for its National Education Programme for Illiterate Youth and Adults through ICTs.

Small and rural schools in Wales are set to benefit from a # 2.5 million grant to be used to encourage innovation and support greater school working.

The 2016 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al - Khalifa Prize recognizing two outstanding projects that make innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education for the benefit of disadvantaged groups will be awarded on 21 February to the Online School Project, operated by Jaago Foundation in rural Bangladesh, and to Harnessing the Power of ICTs in Higher Education, run by the German NGO Kiron that serves displaced persons.

The 2016 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al - Khalifa Prize recognizing two outstanding projects that make innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in education for the benefit of disadvantaged groups will be awarded on 21 February to the Online School Project, operated by Jaago Foundation in rural Bangladesh, and to Harnessing the Power of -LSB-...]

Three examples of successful rural community schools provide a framework for discussing the benefits, characteristics, and policy implications of rural community schools.

A decision by a rural family to withdraw a child from the public school and enroll them elsewhere doesn't mean that the family disconnects from the school — it simply means that the school has fewer resources to provide the non-educational benefits critical for community members.

Charter schools — and any other urban or rural school with high turnover — are essentially subsidizing benefits for those who stay.

Teachers in rural area schools without the benefit of large city resources will be judged how?

The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) Thursday voted unanimously in support of a motion by Rep. Mary Czaja (R - Irma) to provide funding for a variety of technology - related needs that will be of benefit to many Wisconsin school districts and particularly to small rural school districts.

The case study details a rural high school's 8 - step approach as well as its challenges and benefits.

Advancing the Betsy DeVos school privatization agenda has emerged as a top budget priority for PA House members, even though this will provide very little or no benefit to the communities many rural lawmakers represent.

Expenditure analysis suggest the program can be very costly in smaller classrooms and schools and yet students in rural areas may be the students that benefit most from having a stimulating summer educational program available to them.

Moreover, most of the benefits we observed are significantly larger for minority students, low - income students and students from rural schools — typically two to three times larger than for white, middle - class, suburban students — owing perhaps to the fact that the tour was the first time they had visited an art museum.

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