Sentences with phrase «other rural states»

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

The bank provides loans, leases, export financing and other financial services to agribusinesses and rural power, water and communications providers in all 50 states.

But Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alaska, and other Medicaid expansion states have all seen massive drops in their uninsurance rates after adopting it, providing a boon in rural regions where many hospitals regularly see patients who can't afford their care.

These population centers often lean one way while rural parts of the same state lean the other.

Other appointments include Michael Fallon as Secretary of State for Defence and Liz Truss as Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Of course some states have labor unions that drive up the costs of labor, food supplies in rural areas cost more and expenses are out of control in others.

The meetings will be held on Oct. 25 in Cortland and Nov. 14 in Newburgh as state lawmakers and other policy makers grapple with how to combat addiction, which has afflicted rural, suburban and urban parts of the state.

Prisons, mental hospitals and other state job - creators deliberately placed in rural areas?

Senate Housing Committee Chairperson Senator Betty Little said: «The Mobile and Manufactured Home Replacement Program will help address a shortfall in the availability of safe, affordable housing for low - income families in the North Country and other rural areas of New York State.

A number of organizations have joined together to file this suit, including the state PTA, the state School Boards Association, the state Council of School Superintendents, the Rural Schools Association, the Statewide School Finance Consortium, and others.

He said the team would visit 10 schools in the urban and rural areas of the state to inspect the impact of the free school feeding programme of the state as well as other education intervention.

«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?»

«Many folks in rural parts of New York state and in suburban parts of New York state feel that this law — along with many other laws we pass here --(is) New York City, it's Albany telling the rest of the state how they have to live their lives,» said Senate sponsor Rob Ortt, R - Niagara County.

Indeed, while deep - blue New York City dominates state politics, many other parts of the state are just as red and rural as what you'd find outside the big cities in swing states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

«To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (1) what his estimate is of the number of boats in the UK that would require a licence or other form of authorisation to facilitate recreational fisheries under Article 47 of the Council Regulation establishing a community control system for ensuring compliance with the rules of the Common Fisheries Policy; [249749]

When rural Democratic leaders assembled in Niagara Falls this month for a straw poll, Mr. Cuomo's allies also sought to blunt the momentum of Eric R. Dinallo, the former state insurance superintendent, by asking party officials to consider switching their votes to other candidates.

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Your Excellency, I want to commend you for the unparalleled infrastructural projects, especially in the area of road construction both in urban and rural areas which you have bequeathed on Enugu State not to mention other roads that are still under construction.

All around the world, rural depopulation is leading to forest regrowth in abandoned areas — from the vast tracts of secondary broadleaf woodland in America's New England states to tropical forests in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and many other areas.

This study has advantages over other studies in that it includes individuals of low, middle, upper - middle and high individual wealth across 1,833 urban and rural counties in the United States, and a large number of both blacks and whites.

This issue requires carefully constructed cost - effectiveness studies carried out in the environments where the interventions will be implemented; these are likely to differ between cities in the United States and in other countries and between rural and urban areas.»

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

Yet she and thousands of other rural parents have developed a significant voice in state and federal education policies, unlike such parents in the United 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...

«Each community and each state has a little bit different school financing system, so rural communities in some states are better off financially than in other states,» she said.

These and many other state and federal policies suppress the capacity of inventive rural educators to meet the needs of their students or to leverage their community's advantages.

And in New Mexico, public officials are following the lead of other states and looking to support bulk purchasing of school bandwidth, possibly via new regional hubs that would make it easier for more providers to reach rural and remote areas with affordable Internet service.

Other recent work includes developing a school funding model to simulate the impact of student - based budgeting at the state level, evaluating a rural school grant, and providing strategic and research support for a nonprofit working to build the supply of great public schools in a Western state.

Also during 2018, the project team will connect with other organizations in the state that are focused on improving instruction and student outcomes (e.g., Colorado Education Initiative, Rural Education Collaborative).

On the other hand, more than half of all rural students live in just 11 states.

Schools in poor rural communities, for example, may be more likely to build bridges to the state or to other non-local funding sources, given the local constraints they face.135 Charter schools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schools do.136

These include the development of a clear vision and plan of action when transitioning to a personalized learning model by district leaders, the need for rural leaders to collaborate with other Future Ready Schools, and provision of funds by state governments and departments of education to support the implementation.

Other Bennet amendments include plans to create a rural education office at the Department of Education and start a competitive state - based principal training program.

State ID (9 sub-codes) District site ID (18 sub-codes) District size (large, medium, low) District poverty (high, medium, low) District diversity (high, medium, low) District location (urban, suburban, rural) School site ID School level (elementary, middle school, high school) School poverty (high, medium, low) School diversity (high, medium, low) School size (student population) Interviewee role district (superintendent, board member, staff, parent representative, community stakeholder) Interviewee role school (principal or assistant principal, teacher, teacher leader, other staff, parent representative) Interviewee gender Interviewee role experience (0 - 2 years, 3 - 5, 6 - 10, 11 +) Interviewee site experience (0 - 2 years, 3 - 5, 6 - 10, 11 +) Site visit date (site visit 1, 2, or 3) Document type (district, school, research memo).

They also list all of the groups in the state they meet with throughout the year to discuss various issues, including Indiana Association of School Principals, Indiana Federation of Teachers, Indiana's Charter School Association and Indiana Small and Rural School Association, among others.

Rural principals can also take advantage of recent innovations such as virtual networks that give teachers access to educators in like grades or subjects in other districts, rural regions, or stRural principals can also take advantage of recent innovations such as virtual networks that give teachers access to educators in like grades or subjects in other districts, rural regions, or strural regions, or states.

If you're working with a regional or national partner, how does your students» feedback compare to feedback from other students in a comparable group — like state or national benchmarks, or other schools with similar characteristics such as rural or high - poverty schools?

The amendment, which was meant to allocate more equitably to states with rural areas, passed was altered so that states such as New York, Ohio, Maryland and others, would not lose funding immediately, as those states would have under the old Burr amendment.

There the Wonderful Company has built a state - of - the - art K - 12 campus, with an innovative «early college» Agricultural Prep Pathway, and also is helping to implement the same Ag Prep pathway in high schools in six other surrounding small rural communities.

«This program is an incredible opportunity for underserved children from small schools in rural parts of Arizona to have the same technology opportunities that are afforded to other children in the state.»

Promote improved communication among rural schools, regional and state educational service center, Arizona Department of Education, and other public and private agencies

Schools in many states, such as Oklahoma and Arizona, are woefully underfunded across the board; in other states, such as Illinois, there is massive inequity in the amount of funding that goes to educate privileged students in wealthy suburbs and the amount that goes to educate disadvantaged students in urban and rural areas.

In contrast the privately funded non-profit HCZ, promise zones are high poverty urban, rural and tribal communities designated by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (H.U.D) to connect and partner with local leaders and receive federal funding aimed at «improving educational opportunities, leveraging private investment, increasing economic activity, reducing violent crimes, enhancing public health and addressing other communal priorities.»

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It is designed to help people buy their first home in a rural area of Texas and other states.

They're a popular hybrid dog in the state of Texas, this breed is coveted by farmers, ranchers and others that enjoy rural living and outdoor adventure.

Like so many others interested in blaming cats for declining bird populations, Longcore et al. refer to a 1996 article in Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine [1], in which the authors estimate that 8 — 219 million birds are killed annually by «free - ranging rural cats» in the state.

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.