Sentences with phrase «few rural districts»

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With fewer state lawmakers representing rural districts, issues important to rural areas may go unheard.

Few have lawyers in the consumer credit cases filed in New York City, in rural, suburban and urban child support cases and «the overwhelming majority» of tenants in eviction cases in all four of the state's judicial districts, he said.

In rural districts, there are likely no universities and very few jobs which require that kind of education.

In districts that are suburban, rural, or geographically spread out, far fewer employees may live outside their own districts.

Rural school districts, with a few exceptions, 284 have not been extensively studied, except in respect to school finance.

If state policymakers expand voucher programs, this could increase the tax burden of citizens, especially those living in rural communities and small school districts with fewer students.

Housing is just part of the problem, although — as in many rural districts — few homes are available for rent, and many of those that are for sale need major work.

Because high performing educators in those small districts have fewer schools to move around to if they want to receive additional pay to work in lower performing schools as required under such programs, those teachers would be more likely to choose to work in a district that can offer that sort of advantage — something Hall said would simply draw even more quality teachers away from rural schools.

Many small, rural school districts have few students but extremely high rates of chronic absenteeism.

Math and science classes are often less advanced than their titles would imply; barely half of rural districts offer any Advanced Placement courses, compared with 97 percent of urban districts, and even fewer offer International Baccalaureate courses.

Small, rural districts are at an even greater disadvantage with fewer resources to develop competitive grant applications.

While rural school districts have fewer students, the study found, they have «extremely high» rates of chronic absenteeism as well.

Of the state's 115 local school boards, only a few small rural districts don't pay any additional supplements on top of the state's base salary.

I know that aside for a few special programs, suburban and rural districts could not afford such a model.

These are only a few examples of how today's ISDs serve urban, suburban and rural K — 12 districts, enabling even the most challenged school to offer otherwise unavailable educational opportunities to its students.

The study finds that in states with larger proportions of rural SIG schools (in comparison to states with more urban and suburban districts), significantly fewer school leaders reported that replacing principals to meet SIG requirements helped improve student achievement.

A: Hanna Stables is located in a rural area of Belize, just a few miles outside of San Ignacio in the Cayo District.

A unanimous Court (8 - 0, Thomas writing, Gorsuch not participating) rejected the broad reading of a venue statute by which the Federal Circuit had empowered lawyers to forum - shop disputes from all over the country into a few decidedly pro-plaintiff venues, above all the largely rural Eastern District of Texas.