Sentences with phrase «helping rural schools»

«I hope this report will inspire other such creative partnerships to help our rural schools thrive.»

Over the objections of the powerful telecom lobby, the commission also approved a number of policy changes intended to help rural schools.

Since 2012, YE has also launched three major new initiatives: an online version of its course, an affiliate program to help rural schools access the class, and an after - school program, YE Academy, which served more than 500 students in its first year.

A fiscal estimate is now available for AB 835, a bill to help rural schools.

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• The Rural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technoRural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural communities who hope to pursue careers in technology.

Sustainable - food advocates have called for schools to serve more local food, a tactic they say would not only improve flavor but also help support small farms and renew rural communities.

Fort Bragg Unified School District — Pilar Gray Innovation: Noyo Food Forest: Growing Fresh Produce Consumption in a Remote Rural District In collaboration with a local nonprofit, the Noyo Food Forest, Nutrition Services helped create a small working farm on the district's high school cSchool District — Pilar Gray Innovation: Noyo Food Forest: Growing Fresh Produce Consumption in a Remote Rural District In collaboration with a local nonprofit, the Noyo Food Forest, Nutrition Services helped create a small working farm on the district's high school cschool campus.

The Asantehene cited the Otumfuo Charity Foundation, a community development organisation which had an ICT programme, and said that could be a starting point for a possible partnership with Vodafone to roll out training programmes to help school children in rural communities.

There will be a time for campaigning, but right now my only concerns are helping our rural and small city schools, providing tax relief for middle - class families and businesses, and helping our small businesses to grow and create jobs.»

The bill would help pay for buses to drive kids in rural areas to the summer meal programs, increase access to farm - to - table foods, and also lower the threshold for school districts to qualify for free summer meal programs.

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.

Lead author Dr. Peter Alexander, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences and Scotland's Rural College, said: «A mix of small changes in consumer behaviour, such as replacing beef with chicken, reducing food waste and potentially introducing insects more commonly into diets, would help achieve land savings and a more sustainable food system.»

Ken Gross, a University of Vermont mathematician, chose the latter approach in 1998 when state school officials asked him to help improve the mathematical literacy of their largely rural workforce.

If You Build It follows designer / activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie county, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives.

«An investment in quality preschool for at - risk children, including all those rural children in poverty, will help them start school ready to learn and stay on track for success.»

The Rural School and Community Trust's semiannual «Why Rural Matters» report, released Feb. 12, says state leaders should consider the distinctive factors that affect rural schools and adopt and amend policies to help them impRural School and Community Trust's semiannual «Why Rural Matters» report, released Feb. 12, says state leaders should consider the distinctive factors that affect rural schools and adopt and amend policies to help them impRural Matters» report, released Feb. 12, says state leaders should consider the distinctive factors that affect rural schools and adopt and amend policies to help them imprural schools and adopt and amend policies to help them improve.

National initiatives like the National Broadband Plan, as well as grants for hardware and software in schools and libraries, can help address the essential - tools gap that persists in some rural and low - income areas.

Funds from the Investing in Innovation program have helped some rural high schools in North Carolina to ramp up their dual enrollment efforts.

Today's youth hostels are helping school children from all backgrounds to participate in a range of different activities in rural and urban areas across the country.

Students in rural areas have to travel farther to reach school than their urban counterparts — a commute of several hours by boat is considered normal — and many of their parents may not have the education level necessary to help with high school homework.

Of the children who are in school today — especially those in rural areas — 50 per cent of the mothers have probably not had any schooling or very little schooling, which means that the ability at home to help children with learning is very low.

He was a professor of rural education at Teachers College, Columbia University, until his retirement in 1965, and helped launch school - improvement projects in small, remote school districts.

But it must not become code for only helping black and Hispanic students, or only helping students enrolled in urban, rather than rural, schools.

Teaching English for the three years on the Laguna Pueblo reservation and in Aztec, New Mexico, she became distinctly aware of the unique problems faced by rural schools and enrolled in the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program's Instructional Leadership Strand seeking ways she could be of greater help to her students.

Some advocates have raised concerns about whether expanding school choice will help disadvantaged families, especially in rural areas and other places where there may not be many schools from which to choose.

Teacher finds out how this approach is helping students at a school in rural Victoria.

The for - profit company's effort in the rural South represents Edison's newest interest: helping states deal with the many schools listed as needing improvement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

The initiative aims to help the helpers, extending and strengthening the range and quality of the services these professionals provide in all kinds of school settings: public and independent; rural, suburban, and urban; and elementary and secondary.

«We are taking action and providing new funding to help small and rural schools deal with the unique challenges they face, such as small pupil numbers and issues in recruiting head teachers and staff.

Following earning his own certification, Maddin left rural teaching and helped start I.D.E.A. College Prep — a public charter school based in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, dedicated to getting students into top colleges.

«Room to Grow: A School on the Subcontinent Celebrates Creativity and Environmentalism» Read about this school that uses dance and song to help build pride for impoverished children in the hardscrabble farmlands of rural India (June School on the Subcontinent Celebrates Creativity and Environmentalism» Read about this school that uses dance and song to help build pride for impoverished children in the hardscrabble farmlands of rural India (June school that uses dance and song to help build pride for impoverished children in the hardscrabble farmlands of rural India (June 2008).

«Far from being trapped in a rural past, Holy Island and Lowick C. of E. First Schools embrace the future — helping children to experience the complexities, potential, and excitement of technology whilst never losing the essence of their unique character and history.»

spThanks to a multiyear initiative to use technology to help surmount the challenges often faced by the state's small, rural schools, Advanced Placement courses were offered for the first time this spring — via the Internet — in 26 districts

In response to this specific need, we are now actively committed to piloting an idea in schools in socially deprived rural areas to help lead by example.

A low - performing rural school in New Hampshire reached out to the local community for help turning things around.

While that money has helped connect almost every school in the country to the Internet, rural schools continue to find themselves at a huge disadvantage when it comes to prices and access to fiber - optic cables.

Too often charter schools in rural America face challenges that states could help them avoid.

Rural schools need to invest in helping limited - English Hispanic parents discover practical ways they can help children with schoolwork.

The FRS publication, A Guidebook for Success: Strategies for Implementing Personalized Learning in Rural Schools, helps education leaders capitalize on existing assets while addressing their community's challenges.

To help rural districts overcome these challenges, FRS developed a research - based framework and five - step planning process to guide schools and districts as they transition to a personalized learning model centered on individual student learning and facilitated by innovative instruction accelerated by the smart integration of technology.

The Future Ready Schools ® (FRS) publication, A Guidebook for Success: Strategies for Implementing Personalized Learning in Rural Schools, helps education leaders capitalize on existing assets while addressing their community's challenges.

a # 110,000 lump sum for every school to help with fixed costs, and an additional # 26million to rural and isolated schools to help them manage their unique challenges

In rural areas, schools opened their doors in the winter and the summer, but closed their doors in the spring and fall, when parents needed children to help out on farms with planting and harvesting.

Expanded learning opportunities, such as «inter-sessions,» longer school days, after - school programs, and longer school years, should be used to help disadvantaged students not only in cities but also in rural areas, where students from low - income families are even less likely to complete high school, says a report from the Center for American Progress, a Washington - based...

The article offers strategies for implementing a personalized learning, a student - centered approach to help the students develop deeper learning competencies, in rural schools.

(Carl Glickman, Institute for Schools, Education, and Democracy, Inc.) Minnesota New Country is one of the most important schools in the country: it demonstrates what can happen when students take ownership for their own learning and when teachers take ownership for the learning environment; it demonstrates that small rural schools can thrive and help all students sSchools, Education, and Democracy, Inc.) Minnesota New Country is one of the most important schools in the country: it demonstrates what can happen when students take ownership for their own learning and when teachers take ownership for the learning environment; it demonstrates that small rural schools can thrive and help all students sschools in the country: it demonstrates what can happen when students take ownership for their own learning and when teachers take ownership for the learning environment; it demonstrates that small rural schools can thrive and help all students sschools can thrive and help all students succeed.

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To help those students, Quitman County has joined other rural districts to form the Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access to provide advanced coursework for all high school students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstSchool Consortium for Educational Access to provide advanced coursework for all high school students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstschool students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstances.

The government's school food advisers have enlisted children's food expert Annabel Karmel MBE, to help develop a food programme that will enable small schools in rural areas to deliver tasty, nutritious food without losing money.