Sentences with phrase «income rural students»

For example CSDC's New Market Tax Credit program allowed Berkshire Arts and Technology to rehabilitate an industrial building in Adams, MA, to serve low - income rural students, many of whom have significant special educational needs, who otherwise had very limited educational choices.

A new scholarship program launched this summer gives bright, low - income rural students the chance to take part in a challenging summer program at sites across the country.

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This can also become an equity issue since students from small, rural, or low - income schools tend to have less access to AP classes.

The least poorly funded schools tend to be rural schools in low income rural areas with an insufficient local tax base to support them and with high costs associated with a lack of economies of scale and large transportation costs for students.

For this study, sixth grade students were selected to participate, broken into four categories: low - income rural, low - income urban, high - income rural, and high - income urban.

The benefit in the earlier field - trip study was concentrated in students who lacked previous cultural experiences, specifically younger, rural, minority, and low - income students as well as those who had not previously been to the art museum.

Wang, a former Fulbright Fellow and now a second - year doctoral student at HGSE, saw firsthand as an 11th - grade English teacher that the needs of rural, low - income communities often aren't represented in state policy, but are overlooked in favor of efforts that target urban areas because there's little awareness of the rural problems and few advocates are calling for change.

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.

Through writing workshops, This Land Speaks aims to foster civic engagement among rural students and increases public awareness about social issues in America's rural low - income areas.

We also confirm that we obtain similar results when we control for student characteristics measured at or before the PSAT / NMSQT, including sex, parental education, family income level, whether a student took the PSAT / NMSQT in 10th grade and his or her previous score, indicators for ethnic background (for example, Mexican, Cuban), and controls for the type of high school attended, including affiliation (public or private), urbanicity (that is, city, suburban, rural), size, and concentration of Hispanic students.

To the contrary, rural students consistently do less well in college on a variety of outcomes (readiness for credit - bearing courses, grades, rate of progress, graduation) than urban students from similar income groups.

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).

The Bureau of Federal Educational Programs provides technical assistance, program support and monitoring to local educational agencies that will lead to improved academic achievement outcomes for students who are disadvantaged, migrant, neglected, delinquent, at - risk, or homeless; or in rural and low - income schools.

And online courses have the potential to liberate the quality of education from a student's zip code by, for example, allowing rural and low - income urban students access to AP classes now clustered in suburban schools.

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...

There currently are 99 KIPP schools in 20 states and Washington, D.C., serving 26,000 students from low - income rural and urban neighborhoods.

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

This school's Creative Leadership Team plans to build a cross-discipline curriculum planning team, create highly motivating art - based units and authentic assessment guides, to help their rural, low income students see a broader world outside of their county.

At the same time, many rural, urban, and suburban schools serving low - income students challenge such prescriptive teaching.

Rural schools are also serving an increasing number of low - income and minority students, according to the Rural School and Community Trust.

In 23 states a majority of rural students are in low - income households, compared to 16 states in 2013.

Some schools in the rural and suburban parts of the diocese don't expect to have large enough low - income student populations to make it into the top 25, Lancaster said.

«This historic FCC decision in support of a $ 1.5 billion increase in E-rate program funding levels the playing field by ensuring students in low - income and rural communities gain full access to today's digital learning environment.»

(D.C.) In Utah, first - year federal grant funding of $ 2.2 million was used to create a partnership between seven rural school districts, three charter schools, the Ute Indian Tribe, Utah State University and four local business organizations aimed at helping more low - income and at - risk students graduate from high school prepared for college.

Patton Springs School in Afton, Texas serves a highly mobile, low - income population of students in grades K - 12 in a very rural setting.

WASHINGTON, DC — In advance of this morning's major announcement from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler on the federal E-rate program, a new report released today by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Leading Education by Advancing Digital (LEAD) Commission, and authored by Dr. John B. Horrigan, a leading authority on broadband adoption and use, shows that African American, Latino, low - income, and rural students are more likely to be in schools with slow internet access (10 Mbps or less) than their peers and less likely to be in schools with high - speed broadband internet (100 Mbps or more) needed for digital learning.

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.

Though Leland and Gray is a rural school in an economically struggling region — roughly half of its students come from low - income backgrounds — it offers a wide range of AP and dual - credit courses, which all students are eligible (and strongly encouraged) to take.

It's time to update the funding formula to guarantee students in our low - income urban and rural districts the same opportunities as students have in our affluent suburbs.»

Her students hide their art supplies after each class because at Rockingham County High School, part of a low - income, rural district along the state's northern border with Virginia, good materials are in short supply.

Lisa Philip reports on a mobile dentist clinic that treats low - income students in rural North Carolina.

Lastly, the growth of dual - enrollment programs is being driven by educators» desire to see the programs» benefits reach more students, including those in low - income urban and rural communities.

Three years ago, the federal government launched ConnectED, an ambitious program aimed at bridging the digital divide for students in low - income schools, including those in rural, web - isolated areas.

In 2003, the Maine Community College System implemented Early College for ME (ECforME), a dual - enrollment program targeting low - income, first - generation and rural students.

«More principals find it challenging to maintain an adequate supply of effective teachers in urban schools and in schools» where two - thirds or more of the students come from low - income households (60 percent vs. 43 percent in suburban schools and 44 percent in rural schools).

Following the rollout of iPads to all students as part of its personalized learning initiative, Coachella turned to improving Internet access for all students in its low - income, rural community.

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.

While the traditional legal education model has bred students to «Think like a lawyer,» the resulting outcome has left many graduating law students struggling to find employment that justifies the huge debt load many students take on and has created a huge access to justice gap that persist in low - income and rural communities.

IDEA — Special Education Grants to States Title I, Part A — Improving Basic Programs Operated by Local Educational Agencies Title I, Part C — Migrant Education Title I, Part D — Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At - Risk Title II, Part II — Supporting Effective Instruction (Teacher Training and Teacher Retention) Title IV, Part A — Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) Grants Title VI, Part B, Subpart 1 — Small, Rural School Grant Program Title VI, Part B, Subpart 2 — Rural and Low - Income School Program Title VIII — Impact Aid McKinney - Vento Homeless Assistance Act Promoting Student Resilience

The patients that get care at community health centers are mostly low - income, uninsured, or rural Americans, but also include hundreds of thousands of veterans, more than half a million students in primary and secondary school - based clinics, and others.