Sentences with phrase «most rural state»

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.

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).

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

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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.

The state's widespread wet autumn has helped lift rural confidence, with most farmers expecting this year to either be a better year for the agricultural economy or as just as good as last year.

The original bill used a formula that saw most states lose considerably, while a handful of mostly rural, Republican - controlled states gained funding.

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.

The blow would fall heavily on the states whose coal provides most of our electricity and on rural areas where electric costs have the most impact.

In addition, although most so - called development aid in the past has been at best ambiguous in its effects, there are forms of aid that the United States could offer to rural and urban communities in Mexico that would be genuinely supportive.

But if you want to see the most interesting development story on the subcontinent, head for the heavily rural southern state of Kerala, a state as populous as California.

In some areas of the United States, especially rural areas where obstetricians are less available, family practitioners handle most of the deliveries.

This book is a particular favourite of mine because, as a teenager, I keenly followed Robert Kennedy's quixotic run for the presidency, and this account encapsulated the frenetic and sometimes chaotic campaign that ended in the traumatic murder of Kennedy, when he had just won the primary election in the largest state in the Union, California, and in one of the most rural, South Dakota.

And in a state like New York where the party lines are drawn Democratic for the most part in urban areas and Republican in the suburbs and rural reaches, it's easy to figure out who is the winning bet, or you could say, a smart investment.

These awards will transform the way men and women do business, while helping educate our youngest residents in the most rural parts of the state.

This CAF money will be used in conjunction with existing state resources to fund certain areas of Round 3 of the New NY Broadband Program, which will bring high - speed internet services to New York's most unserved rural areas.

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!

Senate President Malcolm Smith sat down with Liz Benjamin at the Democratic Rural Conference to talk about the party's chances of holding onto the state senate, and the future of one of the conference's most controversial members — Pedro Espada Jr..

The data shows that the most rural regions in the state have experienced the worst population drain.

«The threshold the governor wants is to get the entire state to his 100 megabits per second, that's about twice what most consumers have in the Rochester area right now but a lot of rural areas don't even have close to that,» said Vincent Esposito, FLREDC executive director.

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

Governor Aregbesola who tagged his speech «a timely partnership» said IITA has been very supportive of the state's flagship agriculture programme most significantly on Osun Rural Enterprise and Agriculture Programme (O'REAP) in many ways.

Portman's base is in Cincinnati's eastern suburbs and small towns and rural areas in Southwest Ohio, whereas Fisher's base is in metropolitan Cleveland, the most vote - rich area of the state.

Of the 21 counties in the state's most rural regions (the Southern Tier, Mohawk Valley and North County), only four have had a net gain of residents in the past four years, according to the census bureau.

Just south of the Mason - Dixon line and north of the Union - Confederate lines during most of the Civil War (and the scene of its bloodiest battle, Antietam), Maryland is a crossroads state, with both Northern and Southern influences and with both industrial and rural economies.

Maryland, one of the nation's most Democratic states, serves as a microcosm of the trends shaping today's Democratic Party: continuing lopsided support in ethnically and racially diverse urban areas, increasing Democratic success among affluent, suburban voters, and a waning of the party's influence in rural areas.

The number of motor vehicle fatalities involving children under age 15 varies widely by state, but occurrences are more common in the South, and are most often associated with improperly or unused restraints and crashes on rural roads, a new review of child - related auto fatalities shows.

A private Montessori school in rural Minnesota last week cleared a key hurdle on its way to becoming the nation's first «charter» school, able under state law to receive public funds while remaining free from most outside control.

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

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.

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.

Although most are in rural areas, many are technology - and program - rich, thanks to state and federal funding.

And in some parts of rural America, improvements seem most likely to result from state, rather than federal, efforts.

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.

Heine surveyed 200 rural high school counselors on where kids struggled most, and wrote and sent a college guide to every principal in nine states.

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

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..

The debate of charters over traditional public schools appears to be most heated in Rutherford County, a rural manufacturing community in the Blue Ridge Mountains foothills with unemployment rates nearly twice the state average.

Working in some of the poorest, most challenging rural places, the RSCT involves young people in learning linked to their communities, improves the quality of teaching and school leadership, advocates for appropriate state educational policies, and addresses the critical issue of funding for rural schools.

According to the Education Commission of the States, urban, rural, high - poverty, high - minority, and low - achieving schools face the most persistent staffing challenges.

At Small City School and Rural School, the second most common reason stated was being perceived as gay, which suggests rigid behavior expectations for boys and girls.

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.

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.

Though these pioneers are few and most are in the early stages of implementation, they do provide insights for state policymakers and rural school leaders.

It stands in the middle of some of the most rural land in the state.

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.

Shumate is the county's information technology manager, and he hasn't been able to persuade internet providers to serve Hyde, which is one of the state's most rural counties.

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.

-» (A) IN GENERAL. - Except as provided in subparagraph (B), to be eligible for assistance under this chapter, a project shall have eligible project costs that are reasonably anticipated to equal or exceed the lesser of -» (i)(I) $ 50,000,000; or» (ii) in the case of a rural infrastructure project, $ 25,000,000; and» (ii) 331⁄3 percent of the amount of Federal highway assistance funds apportioned for the most recently completed fiscal year to the State in which the project is located.»

We love to visit the wine country as a family because if we stay in the countryside, we get to experience a bit of rural life in one of the most beautiful parts of the state.