Sentences with phrase «most rural districts»

While not a major force in most rural districts, brick - and - mortar charter schools — far more expensive to operate — can create turmoil in a small district, especially one that sets itself up as a competitor to the community's public schools.

Various political and economic pressures, constraints, and incentives may combine to induce some communities to convert their traditional school to a charter, but it is likely that the political power rural legislators and politicians enjoy will cement the status quo in most rural districts and hamper actions that promote chartering.

Not exact matches

Hundreds of districts across the nation, most of them small and rural, already do just that.

Democrats have landed a top recruit in a rural Maine district where candidate profiles matter — even more so than most places.

The 12th Senatorial District is one of the most rural in the state, but that doesn't mean Campbell, Fentress, Morgan, Rhea, Roane, Pickett or Scott Counties are any less important!

In a congressional district that encompasses cash - strapped, potentially gas - rich Sullivan County, New York City's watershed, eco-sensitive communities like Woodstock and various rural areas on the east side of the Hudson River, incumbent U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson and challenger Sean Eldridge are on the campaign trail seeking to define their own, and their opponent's, positions on climate change, energy policy and perhaps most critically fracking.

The districts most in need of state aid tend to be in low income and rural areas like St. Lawrence County.

Chris Collins is well known in the most populated parts of the congressional district as former Erie County executive while David Bellavia is from the more rural parts of the district where he's best known as a combat soldier and writer.

Of the nation's 435 Congressional districts, this rural area ranks 14th in outside spending - the second most in New York.

Most of the pigs in Kamuli district are reared by small scale farmers in the rural community (over 90 %).

And most of the 13 traditional districts remaining are in rural communities rather than in a large suburban «refuge» from urban education ills.

But since most suburban and rural districts hire from nearby colleges, this market mechanism won't mean a thing in much of the country.

School districts in the state of Vermont range from small (4,000 students in the district) to smaller (15 students in the most rural of schools), but one thing that looms large in each community is its schools.

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).

Most federal and state education policies ignore rural America's many natural advantages and force rural school districts to operate in ways similar to those in urban centers.

Some of these children live in small rural communities, but most reside in the Clark County school district surrounding Las Vegas.

The result, experts say, is that many rural districts still face a steep climb to meet long - term federal goals for school connectivity, even though most currently provide students with the minimum recommended bandwidth.

Simply put, the problems confronting urban school districts are bigger, costlier, more numerous, and tougher to overcome than those facing most rural and suburban systems.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.

Terry Ryan, president of the Idaho Charter School Network, adds «Charter schools have provided an academic lifeline for students in troubled urban school districts for decades, yet charter opportunities are not available for most of the country's 11 million rural students.

And it seems to challenge the assumption that rural districts can't leverage their funds effectively to get the most for their students.

The results suggest that the negative effects of entering a middle school are most pronounced in cities, but they remain sizable even in rural areas, confirming that the negative effects of configurations that separate the middle - school grades are by no means limited to urban school districts.

Inattention to small, rural districts no doubt reflects the fact that most students in the United States attend schools in larger districts, although smaller districts the vast majority of districts across the country..

High teacher turnover, slow and unreliable Internet connections, and the loss of art and music programming are all serious issues, but the most significant barrier faced by many rural districts is the rapidly growing cost of transporting students to and from school.

Currently, the Sparsity Aid Program aims to offset the challenges faced by the smallest, most rural school districts in the state through providing $ 300 in per - pupil funding for districts with enrollments of 745 or less and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile.

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.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, approximately 120 districts in 21 states around the country, most of which are small, rural communities in western states, have cut Friday (or Monday) from the schedule.

In Tennessee's most rural school districts, nearly a third of students are graduating without the required two years of a foreign language.

While most teacher residencies began in urban districts, consortia of rural districts and charter school organizations have also created them.

Further, why is it that over 75 % of those employed by schools across the country are female, yet only 18 % of superintenents across the country are female; and in most cases, those women superintendents are in charge of small rural K - 8 districts.

Tredway is senior associate for IEL's Leaders for Today and Tomorrow Project, a catalyst for engaging institutions of higher education, school districts, and nonprofits in uncovering and coordinating efforts in social justice preparation, particularly to support of urban and rural leaders in the most vulnerable schools.

Rural districts have seen their share of low - experience teachers grow most dramatically, from 17.6 percent of teachers in the 2010 - 11 school year to 25 percent in the 2015 - 16 school year.

AASA's «Study of the American Superintendent: 2015 Mid-Decade Update» found that women held only 27 % of the nation's superintendencies, and most of those were in small rural and suburban districts.

Most studies show that suburban and rural school districts have lower attrition rates than urban districts.

Jim Wilson, Principal of Unalaska City School District, spoke to the critical role Mr. Conwell plays in the community, saying «Mr. Conwell has been on the forefront of transforming Unalaska City School District into one of the highest achieving and most recognized rural schools in the state of Alaska... Simply put, Mr. Conwell is the heartbeat of our school and in many ways our community.»

The state's indifference to the plight of struggling districts contributed to the rupture between former state schools Superintendent John Barge and Deal, prompting Barge's infamous letter to the Legislature in which he wrote, «It is a travesty and a shame what our state is doing to our rural and most needy school districts.

Rural districts, most of which offer lower salaries than urban districts, can find it especially tough to recruit new teachers, but they're coming up with some creative solutions.

Meanwhile, rural districts across the country are complaining that they don't have the bandwidth or the computers needed to administer the most widely used Common Core exams, known as PARCC and Smarter Balanced.

Most studies, however, fail to pull out administrative costs as a separate entity in cost functions, as the cost of running schools are a combination of many factors such as student: teacher ratio, number of students from impoverished backgrounds, number of special education students, rural v. urban locations, labor costs, school size, and district size.

These are only a few examples of how today's ISDs serve urban, suburban and rural K — 12 districts, enabling even the most challenged school to offer otherwise unavailable educational opportunities to its students.

Meeting these conditions is difficult in most urban districts, and impossible in rural districts.

For this reason, NCTR recognizes that one of the most important indicators of a successful program is the degree to which it is in service to urban and rural school districts and its students.

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 response to next week's advocacy day has also been slower in North Carolina's poorer and more rural districts, areas in which advocates say legislative cuts are arguably most harmful because the local tax base can't make up the shortfall.

Nicknamed «the forgotten land» the Toledo District is the least populated and most rural of the Districts of Belize.

Although Central American immigrants have settled throughout the country, they have been most heavily concentrated in the rural areas of Cayo and Toledo districts.

Located in the rural district of Canggu, just minutes from some of Bali's most revered surf beaches, six - bedroom Chalina Estate truly channels the energy of its beautiful surroundings and captures the true essence of Bali with its classic architecture, lush tropical gardens and rice - field views.

Parramatta, the major hub of the area and largest central business district after the Sydney CBD and North Sydney, was originally considered by the early Governors to be the most favoured site of the States Capital Western Sydney also comprises the majestic beauty of the World Heritage Listed Blue Mountains National Park; state - of - the - art Olympic venues; historical sites of Indigenous and Colonial importance; and traditional rural environments with the high - tech business districts, retail and service centres typical of a modern regional economic powerhouse.

Located in the rural district of Canggu, just minutes from some of Bali's most revered surf beaches, Chalina Estate offers incredible sunsets with glimpses of the mystical Batukaru volcano in the distance.

Most Republican members of Congress are now under great pressure from the big polluters who are their big money campaign donors to actively oppose clean energy industries that have been an agent of economic growth in the nation generally and in rural Republican districts specifically.