Sentences with phrase «largely rural states»

The senators hail from largely rural states, many of which are considered «red» or swing states in presidential elections, including Arkansas, Colorado, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

The institute now offers genetic counseling via telephone to patients in largely rural states like Wyoming and Idaho, and are looking to expand further in the next few years, she said.

The National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, NASA, and other agencies already have EPSCoR - type programs serving roughly two dozen largely rural states.

Some districts in the largely rural state have long - standing voucher - like programs, called «tuitioning,» in which they pay to enroll students at secular private schools or public schools in other districts when...

One of us recently asked a local school district superintendent in a largely rural state to identify the most important qualities he looked for when hiring new teachers.

The largely rural state, like many of its neighbours, has led on wind energy for a while with farms and isolated communities installing turbines long - before the emergence of the climate change debate.

Located across a geographically diverse and largely rural state, over 15 % of all Montanans are income - eligible for MLSA services.

The Burlington - South Burlington metropolitan area is home to one - third of the population of VT, though its area accounts for less than a quarter of this largely rural state.

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Bowling's story is emblematic of the boom - and - bust history of the coal industry in Appalachia, a largely rural 13 - state swath that runs from southern New York to northeastern Mississippi.

The states with the most wireless - only households tend to be largely rural and in the West or South; households in the Northeast are most likely to hang onto their landlines.

He has defended his views on gun rights, saying firearm ownership in rural states like his is largely associated with hunting, and he understands gun violence is a separate issue altogether in urban America.

While the rural, largely working - class congressional district has been trending purple in recent years, Stefanik carved out a decisive victory in her re-election last November, thrashing Mike Derrick, a Democrat, by 33 percentage points — the highest spread in the state.

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.

The largely poor and rural state of Mississippi suffers from the highest rate of childhood poverty in the country, along with some of the lowest scores on standardized tests.

The largely rural and under - populated Green Mountain State at first seemed an unlikely place for a reform like personalized learning to take root.

The Global Teaching Project chose to pilot its program in 10 low - income high schools in Mississippi because the state is largely rural, lacks certified teachers, and because the «need was so great» said Matthew Dolan, chief executive of the program.

It's always been hard to get ahead in the largely poor and rural state of Mississippi, where the median household income is the lowest in the U.S..

Lying wedged between the Orange and Vaal rivers and landlocked in the sense that it is entirely surrounded by other provinces, the Free State is largely a rural province - its towns widely dispersed over a golden landscape that stretches over 129 464 km.

The changes specify that projects within the boundaries of municipally - owned utilities and rural electric cooperatives in the state, largely in Central and Southern Illinois, will be able to participate in programs under the Plan.

Although it was much easier to expand home gardening during World War II, when the United States was largely a rural society, there is still a huge gardening potential — given that the grass lawns surrounding U.S. residences collectively cover some 18 million acres.

These include many of the 186,000 utility customers in 23 largely rural, mostly low - income counties in southeastern Mississippi that are now on the hook for a good part of the plant's estimated $ 6.6 billion cost - this after Southern promised them and state and federal officials in 2010 that the first - of - its - kind power station wouldn't cost more than $ 2.4 billion.