Sentences with phrase «rural districts»

For poorer people living in rural districts rates of control were particularly low.

She said there were «some gaps» in broadband access at some schools, but mostly in small rural districts.

It's a very rural district with lots of open spaces and plenty of farm animals.

Two - thirds live in families in which at least one adult works, and the percentage of poor students in many rural districts equals that in inner - city districts.

Three of the four districts changed school superintendents in the four - year study period, and the fourth nearly did so - a high level of turnover for rural districts.

The collaboration is especially valuable for teachers in rural districts where they might be the only science teacher.

The program had been serving urban districts with its teacher residency program since 2004, but was also well aware of the recruitment and retention challenges rural districts face.

Second, schools can benefit from economies of scale, which typically proves especially difficult for remote rural districts.

The obstacles of teacher recruitment and certification in rural communities are also addressed; rural districts often struggle to find even one qualified teacher.

The tools represent the best thinking of school board leaders from urban, suburban, and rural districts across every region in the country.

Parents in other rural districts are fed up, too, and they're being heard.

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

Over the course of conversations with leaders from 30 remote rural productivity superstar districts, the authors learned that there is no «secret sauce» for creating a productive rural district.

For instance, more than half of rural districts experience teacher shortages, as do a third of small and high - need districts (Figure 6).

Students living in rural districts also have performed more poorly than students living in urban and suburban areas.

The small, rural districts tend to have almost as much difficulty attracting and retaining teachers as do the central city districts.

As a side note, we have expanded the program into neighboring rural districts and have had great response from those communities and the local industries.

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

I am committed to ensuring that education and health care are at the forefront of my large rural district, and this includes accessible reproductive health and services.

We encountered similar findings in some small rural districts, notwithstanding the fact that they had fewer professional staff at the district level.

When you are a STEM coordinator of a diverse, rural district with limited funds and high hopes for a superior summer school program, you must get creative.

Housing is just part of the problem, although — as in many rural districts — few homes are available for rent, and many of those that are for sale need major work.

What's to be done about rural districts where school closure or replacement strategies are not viable?

Consolidation might inhibit the conditions that make superstar productivity results more likely in small, isolated remote rural districts.

It provides data - driven decision - making tools which represent the best thinking of school board leaders from urban, suburban, and rural districts across every region in the country.

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

It found that between the 2004 - 05 and 2014 - 15 school years, 97 percent of rural districts experienced enrollment declines.

They also raise the question of whether it is even worthwhile, particularly in rural districts where resources are limited and plans are ill defined.

Republicans are seizing on some of the less flattering parts in the story, characterizing the wealthy Eldridge's efforts to reach out in the largely rural district as being more than a bit awkward.

In 2012, presidential nominee Mitt Romney carried the conservative, rural district by 10 points as the Democratic lawmaker won his race by a 25 - point margin.

In several of the higher - performing districts in our sample (including large urban / suburban as well as rural districts), for example, district leaders and school personnel described recent and ongoing district - wide efforts to support teacher implementation of differentiated instruction.

With funding from WHO, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and colleagues from Makerere University in Uganda have conducted a study that includes around 1,000 women from rural districts of Uganda.

The members include larger and urban - type districts such as Green Bay, Chippewa Falls, Appleton, Sheboygan, and Beloit, as well as smaller, more rural districts like Algoma, Cornell, Spring Valley, Kickapoo, Antigo, and Whitewater.

It is not acceptable to have schools in our cities and poor rural districts staffed by a revolving door of beginning and often untrained teachers, many of whom see this as charity work they do on the way to a real job.

For the 1951 general election, there was some alteration to the boundaries of rural district of Magor and St Mellons.

The measure also would provide stipends to help rural districts keep the teachers they already have.

Elaine Allensworth, from the Consortium on Chicago School Research, discussed the Illinois Five Essentials; Kendra Wilhelm, Denver Public Schools, talked about the LEAP (Leading Effective Academic Practice) work in Denver that is DPS's system of evaluating the performance and supporting the growth of teachers, and Amy Farley discussed the Colorado Legacy Foundation's work on using student surveys with pilot districts, including rural districts.

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.

Gun rights groups claim a slim majority for their position in the Senate, given the two or three Democratic Senators representing rural districts who often vote against gun control — although there are also Republican Senators from urban districts who tend to waver.

Texas rural districts are challenged to attract and retain educators in communities that might be perceived as less desirable places to live for teachers newly entering the profession.

Democratic incumbents from poor, rural districts simply didn't have the resources to defend themselves against the onslaught of outside spending — and national Democrats didn't call in the cavalry.

Speaking at a business breakfast meeting in Accra on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 he said «I always say that since you are not going to create jobs in the short term in your cities, you've got to focus on rural districts.

A transit bus turned art studio visits rural districts, low - income housing areas, and parks in and around Eugene to give kids access to art.

Suppose, for example, a number of students leave Milwaukee for a lower - spending rural district.

A federal i3 (Investing in Innovation Fund) grant application, for example, is estimated to take 120 hours at a minimum (the equivalent of 15 full workdays) and is often developed in consultation with paid advisors, which few rural districts can afford.