De Blasio said there's a «tremendous feeling for public education» in the United States,
including in rural districts and red states, and opposition to any ideas or proposals that might undercut resources for public schools.
Not exact matches
Cardston - Siksika — Joseph Schow and Marc Slingerland are challenging MLA Dave Schneider for the UCP nomination
in this newly redrawn southern
rural district that largely covers the areas
included in the current Cardston - Taber - Warner and Little Bow
districts.
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.
«I'm fairly confident when they hear from the people of Erie County, they're going to change their tune because they're going to realize the majority of people
in Erie Count, y
including people that live
in their
districts, even Republican,
rural districts, support the proposal that we'll be putting forth.»
The 19th Congressional
District covers several exurbs and
rural towns outside Albany, and stretches down to
include the city of Kingston
in Ulster County.
This is something people
in rural areas are hoping for,
including those
in the 111th Assembly
district.
These
include two
rural electricity projects located at Tapo, Heipang
district of Barkin Ladi Local Government Area and Duei,
in Du
district of Jos South Local Government Area.
Republicans control the redistricting process after their big rout
in 2010 — which
included stealing the state's two
rural northern
districts — but the limitations of the map make it hard for the GOP to expand on its current five - to - three majority
in a swing state like Wisconsin.
Republicans gained an on - record vote from several marginal Democrats —
including Poughkeepsie senator Terry Gipson and senator Cecilia Tkaczyk, who represents a
rural district in the Catskills — for the coming campaigns.
The group's Michael Borges says there are many barriers,
including fears of community loss of identity, and very long bus rides for children
in rural districts that want to consolidate.
Gibson, 48, is a lifelong New Yorker and a talented campaigner with an appealing personal story, especially for a
district that
includes newly gentrified river towns like Hudson * but also covers a wide swath of depressed
rural territory: He's a former Army colonel who served four tours
in Iraq and was awarded a Purple Heart.
The race to succeed Mr. Boehner
in Ohio's eighth
district, which
includes suburban Cincinnati and
rural communities, has more than a dozen candidates who will be on the primary ballot on March 15.
Cuomo
in January proposed a tweak that would boost the total amount by 1 percent, or $ 428 million, but critics have said that his plan funnels money to more wealthy
districts, thus depriving
rural, poor
districts —
including those
in the Adirondack Park — both their rightful share and relief for taxpayers.
With funding from WHO, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and colleagues from Makerere University
in Uganda have conducted a study that
includes around 1,000 women from
rural districts of Uganda.
To identify more precisely the independent effects of the multiple factors affecting teachers» choices, we use regression analysis to estimate the separate effects of salary differences and school characteristics on the probability that a teacher will leave a school
district in a given year, holding constant a variety of other factors,
including class size and the type of community (urban, suburban, or
rural)
in which the
district is located.
The conference was based on a set of papers that
included reviews of NCLB implementation
in California, Colorado, Michigan, and New Jersey, as well as
in three
rural Kentucky
districts and 36 big - city
districts nationwide.
Strengthening school
districts — Launched
in 2009, the Irvine - funded California Linked Learning
District Initiative was implemented over seven years within nine California school
districts that, together, served 14 percent of the state's public high school students (
including a high percentage of low - income youth of color, within
rural and urban geographies).
Maine's plan also
includes partnering with the Maine Education Policy Research Institute to identify successful longevity pay approaches
in other
rural states, approaching the state legislature to fund a pilot, and encouraging
districts to partner with local business leaders and community organizations to fund this additional pay.
Digital Learning Strategies for
Rural America offers profiles of policies and programs at work
in 15 states across the country,
including examples of state virtual schools, course access opportunities, blended learning models,
district - led online learning initiatives, and regional partnerships.
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 instructio
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 instructio
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.
Schools
in the study ranged from 28 - 92 % poverty, and
included four
rural, four small town, and one suburban school, as well as five inner - city schools from three large metropolitan
districts.
Federal law
in postsecondary education must also be a robust source of support for local innovation, research, and implementation of strategies designed to improve teacher and principal effectiveness and
include: Evidence - based preparation and professional development; Evidence - based evaluation systems that
include,
in part, student performance; Alternative certification programs that meet workforce needs; State and school
district flexibility regarding credentials for small and / or
rural schools, special education programs, English learners and specialized programs such as science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics; and Locally - determined compensation and teacher and principal assignment policies.
Network Eight: Students
in Small and
Rural School
Districts, which provides that activities that may support learning opportunities and improvements across the state may
include projects such as professional community to mentor and support teachers and mitigate professional isolation
For a range of reasons,
include their remoteness, their generally small size and a lack of media coverage, teacher shortages
in rural districts have received far less attention than those
in inner - city schools.
Governor Walker said the proposed $ 200 increase
in per pupil aid matches what Dr. Tony Evers, the newly re-elected state superintendent, asked for and does not
include sparsity aid that will be given to
rural school
districts.
Representatives from local Kern County school
districts,
including Arvin and Vineland, joined the Dolores Huerta Foundation and California
Rural Legal Assistance
in a media briefing and roundtable.
Holtz's path began
in an elementary school classroom
in rural Minnesota,
included a stint on a police force
in Whitewater and traveled to five elementary principal and school
district superintendent positions across Wisconsin.
But many
districts are quietly feeling the same squeeze,
including in poor
rural and suburban communities.
And
in California's
rural Central Valley, Jerry Waymire, the assistant superintendent for information technology for the Kings County Office of Education, has spearheaded construction of a broadband network
in several
districts,
including Corcoran Joint Unified.
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).»
The Learning Policy Institute surveyed 25 California school
districts,
including the largest suburban and urban
districts in the state and a sampling of
rural districts, representing every region
in California.We surveyed 31
districts in total, choosing
districts based on size and geographic representation.
School
districts and their local partners
in inner cities and
rural communities are overcoming poverty and family breakdown to create high - performing schools,
including charters and traditional public schools.
Most
rural schools,
including districts participating
in the Idaho Leads initiative, the Idaho P - TECH network, Khan Academy
in Idaho and other efforts, are already forging ahead with integrating technology into their work.
The task force put forward a number of prudent ideas,
including increasing sparsity aid to
rural districts and creating a student loan forgiveness program for new teachers who choose to teach
in rural Wisconsin.
The fact that governments (
including school
districts) are major employers, especially
in rural areas, along with the struggle reformers often have
in explaining the nuances of teacher pay (and moving away from over-simplification that lead to Matt Damon moments) should also help the NEA's and AFT's cause.
These data
include teachers from a large urban
district and an entire state
in the Western United States, allowing for an investigation of the dynamics of turnover
in both high cost - of - living urban areas and
rural school
districts over the past fifteen years.
With a majority of school
districts in rural settings and a strong investment
in school infrastructure, Colorado schools
include over 300 innovation, charter, and online schools.
3) Virginia: K12 partners with over 2,000 school
districts in the U.S. — large, small, urban and
rural —
including in Virginia (e.g. Alexandria City Public Schools
in highly populated northern Virginia uses K12 for its online / blended programs.)
Ventures
in Leadership supported a wide variety of projects
including professional development for leaders and leader - mentors; data management to track and improve student performance; online networking to reduce isolation among
rural districts; recruitment strategies
including media campaigns; and innovative leadership models.
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).
NSEA worked on amending the language to also
include the
rural districts in the second year to research and / or start the program.
Since 2009, TIGER has provided nearly $ 5.1 billion to 421 projects
in all 50 states, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands,
including 143 projects to support
rural and tribal communities.
The Trumann area has many excellent school
districts, 2 large hospitals
in Jonesboro, low traffic congestion, easy commute, low crime rates, low cost of living, many options for home ownership, from urban to
rural, and opportunities for outdoor activities are abundant,
including duck hunting, and fishing.
Along with Kiefer's earliest book, The Heavens, the exhibition
includes Cauterization of the
Rural District of Buchen, 1975, seven books made from charred remnants of paintings, indicating Kiefer's longstanding interest
in alchemy and his exploration into the possibility of metaphorically healing a wounded German landscape; and Twenty Years of Solitude, 1971 — 91, which uses unbound lead pages as a foundation for a series of white, semen - stained ledgers.
There were a number of other presentations at the conference about improving delivery of palliative care services to remote communities,
including work by the Far West Local Health
District that was said to be transforming the palliative approach
in rural residential aged care
in far west New South Wales.
The evidence base
includes outcomes for schools with a variety of governance structures
in many local contexts, ranging from small charter schools to large and small
district - run schools
in urban and
rural communities.