Sentences with phrase «poor rural schools»

For poor rural schools, the problem has a lot to do with larger forces tearing away at the economies of rural America, making it hard to both attract teachers, and hold on to them.

And that is especially true for many thousands of inner city and poor rural schools.

The bleak forecasts are fueling talk of pink slips and program cuts, especially in many urban and poor rural school systems where federal money pays for nearly 20 percent of school budgets.

Not exact matches

The American system of education makes it possible for a poor boy living in a great city to carry himself through college and even through certain professional schools free, whereas a similar boy living in a rural community will be Stopped alter high school by the costs of transportation to the state - college town and by the cost of board and food away from home.

Having taught for some years in the public school system of MS, I can say that in many of the rural schools in this state (likely the same in nearby states as well for rural schools) have many football players on free or reduced price school lunch programs and very poor training and weight room facilities.

Chad comes to us from the Alliance for Quality Education where he served as Statewide Campaign Coordinator, working with small cities and poor rural areas to ensure adequate school funding regardless of zip code.

Would you commit to fully funding schools, especially in poor inner city and rural districts, and how would you fund it?

Hawkins said that a debate focused on education would show that both Governor Cuomo and Astorino would underfund public schools, especially in property - poor inner city and rural communities.

Majee, along with Urmeka Jefferson, assistant professor in the MU Sinclair School of Nursing, partnered with a county health agency serving a rural community with a population of 21,500 people; a high percentage of the communities» jobs were low - paying manufacturing jobs, and the population possessed poor education.

If You Build It follows designer / activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie county, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives.

Preer starred as Sylvia Landry, an African - American woman who travels north in an effort to raise money for a rural school in the Deep South for poor black children.

A South Carolina judge's ruling that the state must provide more educational opportunities for young children in poor and rural areas is setting the stage for an extensive legislative and policy debate on K - 12 schools in the Palmetto State.

An academic study at her museum found that students, especially those in rural or poor schools, gained skills like critical thinking, historical empathy and tolerance after attending field trips.

School closures often affect poor students, African - American students, and rural communities like Hughes, Ark..

Districts rich or poor and urban or rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.

«Incentives to work in low - performing schools are not the sole answer — too often, it's large class sizes, poor working conditions, and a lack of support from administrators that drives teachers away from high - poverty rural and inner - city schools,» she said.

In a decision designed to spark a transformation of New Jersey's school finance formula, the state board of education concluded last week that poor rural districts have been shortchanged in a state known nationally as a leader for providing billions of dollars in extra aid and programs to its poor urban districts.

Typically, urban and rural schools serving poor and minority students have the highest turnover rates, and as a result they have the highest percentages of first - year teachers, the highest percentages of teachers with fewer than five years of teaching experience, the lowest paid teachers, and the lowest percentages of accomplished teachers.

«The poorest children in America go to school in rural areas.»

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.

Anne Davies, a Canadian researcher who was hired by the state to do a qualitative study of the laptop project, spent four months — September, October, November 2002, and May 2003 — at Pembroke Elementary School in rural Washington County, the poorest county in the state, where the nearest supermarket is 25 miles away and the nearest bookstore is 75 miles.

The report points out that rural America is far poorer than metropolitan areas and that nearly one in four U.S. schoolchildren attends school in a rural area.

Schools in rural areas were identified as having the lowest access to ICT, with the reason being attributed to poor wireless connectivity (Wi - Fi).

South Carolina has hired Edison Schools Inc. to try to improve student achievement in the struggling Allendale County school system, a poor rural district entering its fifth school year under state control.

In this small, mostly African - American, overwhelmingly poor town in rural South Carolina, Kingstree Junior High School's new principal, Margie Myers, was desperate to boost dismal test scores and rein in severe discipline problems — without spending money she didn't have.

The Oklahoma network, started in 2002, has fifty - two schools — public, private, and charter; rich and poor; rural and urban; grades P - 12.

Rural schools often pay exorbitant rates for poor Internet service.

As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»

High - needs urban and rural schools, on the other hand, offer their teachers extremely challenging students, unusually poor working conditions, and compensation unresponsive to market conditions even within the teaching profession.

Many of the nation's teachers, especially in the poorest urban districts and in the 5,000 school districts classified as rural, had fallen short of that standard.

Wings for Kids provides after - school programs for poor children in Atlanta, Charlotte, Charleston and rural Lake City, S.C. Trump's budget would eliminate funding that the organization relies on.

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 schoolsSchools 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 schoolsschools, which are particularly vulnerable to resource constraints, may need to depend more on non-educational community members than regular public schoolsschools do.136

The proposed referendum restrictions would disproportionately affect declining - enrollment districts and poorer districts, especially rural districts, the school board says.

We believe this could be an opportunity for positive change as long as adequacy and equity are central tenets to address the chronic and growing divide between urban / rural, wealthy and poorer school systems and their related student achievement gaps.

Is it possible that a rural school serving poor families in the middle of Mississippi is changing the way we look at curriculum and instruction in the early grades?

This simple philosophy was used to launch an experiment with the goal of improving eight poor rural Mexican public schools.

The pockets of what Green, citing David Cohen, refers to as «coherent» teacher preparation initiatives are small and scattered, serving a small fraction of U.S. schools and teachers, and operating largely outside of the traditional public schooling system built to serve the urban poor and their suburban and rural neighbors.

Nearly 70 percent of schools lack a high - speed Internet connection, and a disproportionate number of them are in poor urban and rural communities, according to estimates from the FCC.

And this is as true for children in our suburban schools — where one out of every four fourth - graders are functionally illiterate — as it is for our poorest and minority kids in urban and rural communities.

Especially in urban and rural school districts, low salaries and poor working conditions often contribute to the difficulties of recruiting and keeping teachers, as can the challenges of the work itself.

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.

In other words, schools in poor urban and rural areas of the country might not suffer from a shortage of teachers in general, but they lack for the quality teachers that Kopp's organization provides.

School officials said it was difficult to compare poor students in Cincinnati with their counterparts across Ohio, noting that students in rural areas faced different challenges.

A recent study of urban, suburban, and rural schools in four states found that smaller schools helped close the achievement gap — as measured by test scores — between students from poor communities and students from more affluent ones.

It will not be until the next century, 2111, before poor rural girls will all have places in secondary school, at the current levels of progress.

Poor - performing urban districts, more than suburban and rural schools, often are targeted for takeover by their respective states, as documented in some recent cases:

As such, poor, rural girls are forecast to be the slowest to have school places, with Unesco projecting it will take until 2086.

The report says 57 million remain without schools and at the current rate it will be 2086 before access is reached for poor, rural African girls.

Small rural and suburban public school districts are a poor fit for President Trump's proposed private - school voucher system.

The study shows that governors are overwhelmingly likely to be white - 96 % - with little difference between wealthy and poor areas or between urban and rural schools.