Sentences with phrase «many rural states»

The lobbyist said that rural states would be most adversely impacted, noting that even though Trump's plan includes $ 50 billion in federal funding for rural infrastructure projects, that may be a high enough compensatory figure.

«For a person like me from a rural state, a lot of times that retaliation is in regard to agriculture.

Progressives and many 2020 presidential hopefuls in the Senate have lined up against the legislation, while some moderates and those from rural states support it and seek to hold it up as an example of their ability to work in a bipartisan manner.

New York has much different requirements then say, a small rural state like Maine has.

It is crazy to let a small number of religious nuts from a small rural state have this much say in an election.

Vermont is a small, entirely rural state with just 600,000 people.

Sanders has defended his position on guns, considering that he comes from a rural state with few gun deaths and loose firearms laws.

It's worth noting that, compared with other rural states, Vermont derives a lot of its economy from tourism, niche agriculture, and handicrafts.

More rural states tend to have more regressive taxes and lower taxes overall than more urban states.

«The other thing that I guess the Sanders supporters would say is, «you know, he comes from a rural state with widespread gun ownership»... So is it not fair to let Bernie Sanders off the hook in that way?»

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.

Gun control legislation is one of the few issues on which Clinton is decidedly left of Sanders, whose rural state has lax firearms laws.

Danjuma, a former Minister of Defence, had last month, at the maiden convocation / 10th anniversary of Taraba State University, Jalingo, said there was an attempt at ethnic cleansing in the state and, of course, some rural states in Nigeria.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

A terrestrial - ecosystem biologist at Iowa State University in Ames, Russell visited India in 1996 and again in 2005, spending more than 2 years altogether in the rural state of Kerala with her husband and two daughters.

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

The Rural Healthcare Program reaches a new milestone in improving emergency cardiac care across seven rural states.

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.

What happens when you live in a very rural state and there is virtually less than a puddle of men nearby in online dating?

First, Buddy (Brandon J. Sornberger) moans about the pleasure of headlining on a Tuesday night to losers, then he detonates the very old and very bad joke about how they define a virgin girl out in the rural states.

In a rural state like North Dakota, where schools are often 25 miles or more from a family's home, said the lawyer, Duane Houdek, access to a school bus «is very much access to education, especially when a family has no money» to pay transportation fees.

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.

«For large rural states like Montana, and for inner - city school systems struggling with limited resources, the impact on education could be dramatic,» according to Mr. Burns.

Kentucky is one of the nation's poorest states, is the eighth most rural state, underperforms on NAEP, needs school options, and is one of only eight states left with no charter law.

The rarity of charter schools in the most - rural states raises the broader question about the viability of school choice in rural America.

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...

While promising economic growth in rural states, this model doesn't directly address the needs of rural high school students who aren't within driving distance of, or willing to relocate for, good jobs in their state.

While school choice does have a history in rural states — since 1869, Vermont has allowed parents to select a nearby school for their student to attend at the expense of their own town through a «tuitioning» program — few states have encouraged the direct creation of rural, publicly funded schools of choice.

Among the 10 most rural states, only Arkansas has charter schools, thanks in part to this powerful alliance with rural districts (although Reimagine Prep will open the first Mississippi charter school, in Jackson, in the fall of 2015).

Examining the conditions that enabled this effort to occur, it becomes apparent that rural states can provide fertile ground for education innovation.

The vision was ambitious, especially for a rural state with a high poverty rate.

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.

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.

Ryan concludes by offering five lessons for policymakers in rural states that could help improve educational opportunities for students:

In Rural Innovators in Education, Terry Ryan of the Idaho Charter School Network looks at examples of this trend, using his findings to develop five policy lessons for Idaho and other rural states.

In 1997, the Mexican government launched a bold anti-poverty experiment in seven poor, rural states.

This demonstrates that despite a highly - conservative political environment in many rural states, there is no local push to create school voucher programs in many places given the fiscal and logistical challenges.

Of the most rural states, only 3 (Oklahoma, Mississippi and Arkansas) currently have voucher programs.

Vouchers are one of the most polarizing issues in education, drawing fierce resistance from Democrats and some Republicans, particularly those in rural states.

Conservative states, liberal states, rural states, and urban states have endorsed this major change.

For rural states like Montana, adequately financing the public schools is already difficult.

For example, some conservative lawmakers in rural states such as Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas have been pushing back on state efforts to legislate tax credit scholarships or education savings accounts.

This policy brief from the Education Commission of the States explores strategies for expanding access to dual enrollment opportunities in rural states and communities.

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..

Two Republican senators from large rural states where school choice is logistically impossible (Maine and Alaska) crossed party lines and voted against DeVos, and both said they did so due to enormous pressure from constituents.

Yet in rural states, securing qualified dual enrollment instructors, covering program costs and addressing program logistics is particularly challenging.

Enhancing Early Learning in Rural States details how to prevent / minimize achievement gaps and shortfalls for children birth through third grade and offers guidance on how rural Chiefs can lead to improve early learning opportunities and outcomes.

Tom Schultz gave this presentation at the Council of Chief State School Officers Building Capacity of Rural States Meeting.

Kentucky and Vermont are both overwhelmingly rural states that do not face the same challenges that states with large urban districts must tackle.

It can work in urban centers and in rural states like ours.