Sentences with phrase «mostly rural states»

Generally, states containing major cities pay higher wages on average than mostly rural states.

In Oklahoma, a mostly rural state with large pockets of poverty around Tulsa, the biggest chunk of school improvement money is concentrated in six persistently low - performing schools in Tulsa.

Georgia Life Insurance — Georgia has a very diverse mix of young and old and the city of Atlanta in the middle of a mostly rural state.

Indiana Life Insurance — Indiana is a mostly rural state except for the Indianapolis and Chicago areas.

Not exact matches

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

State and federal funding would enable more than 100 mostly rural districts to acquire high - speed online access.

Located in Washington State's rural Yakima Valley, Granger High School serves 388 mostly Hispanic students, 89 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch.

As can be seen in the chart below, there is a great difference between the average teacher salary in a metropolitan area like Cheyenne and a nonmetropolitan, mostly rural area of the state, like the Northwest.

This creates an equity gap, particularly for states that are comprised of mostly rural districts that traditionally face challenges recruiting teachers.

Delta State overhauled its program to focus on instructional leadership, featuring a full - time internship and financial support so teachers can spend a year preparing to become principals who can transform schools in a poor, mostly rural region.

Early in 2017 Mostly Mutts completed a rescue mission in a neighboring state, rescuing 21 dogs from a rural hoarding situation.

Mostly shot in rural areas, her images present the cultural connections that exist between local Guatemalans and their family members in the United States.

The photographers traveled mostly to the rural areas of the United States that were most affected by the Depression: the Southeast, the Southwest, and the West.

25 More Biofuel Refineries Needed + 3,000 Jobs Created CARB touts the fact that in order to produce the 1.5 billion gallons of biofuels needed in the state, an additional 25 biofuel production facilities will be required, creating more than 3,000 new jobs, mostly in rural areas.

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.

Ohio generally has really low insurance rates, but the bitter pill for Mentor's locals is that those great low rates really mostly apply to the state's more rural areas, like those out toward neighboring rural Pennsylvania.