Sentences with phrase «rural districts often»

Federal School Improvement Grants are usually passed through the state and on to school districts, but small rural districts often don't have the capacity to administer the grants themselves.

Rural districts often struggle to find even one qualified teacher per subject.

Not exact matches

For example, city centers, suburbs, and rural areas often have very different interests, so I would argue that, to meet the purpose of districting in the first place, it makes more sense to put the city center, suburbs, and rural areas in their own districts to the maximum extent reasonably possible.

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.

Slaughter's old district, as you'll recall, was often referred to as the «earmuff» district because it stretched from the city of Buffalo, through the city of Niagara Falls to the city of Rochester (basically an effort to capture every available urban Democrat while leaving the rural and suburban Republicans out).

Problems exist in large urban districts and in low - income rural areas, elites often concede, but they have convinced themselves that at least their own children are receiving an excellent education in their affluent suburban districts.

When workers from rural villages across southern China set out for cities in search of better jobs and a better life, that journey often takes them to neighborhoods like this one, a teeming section of Guangzhou's Hai zhu district.

spThanks to a multiyear initiative to use technology to help surmount the challenges often faced by the state's small, rural schools, Advanced Placement courses were offered for the first time this spring — via the Internet — in 26 districts

Courses in math and science are often less advanced than their titles would imply; barely half of rural districts offer any Advanced Placement courses (compared to 97 percent of urban districts).

Hoxby says, citing one of Massachusetts» best - performing and wealthiest suburban school districts to point out a flaw in any attempt to compare charter schools, which are very often located either in inner cities or rural areas, with American public schools in general.

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.

Educational barriers and challenges often vary by region, yet at districts where odds seem disproportionately stacked against student success — such as Jefferson County Schools (JCS) in rural West Virginia — school leaders know that delivering excellence in education requires vision, strategy and, sometimes, complete process overhaul.

The state's Department of Education also doesn't have a system for identifying whether districts are rural, urban or suburban, at least in part because more often than not, a district doesn't fit neatly into one of those categories.

«But, to properly stem the tide of professionals leaving rural districts, the state must provide a funding stream to equalize the differences between rural districts and their wealthier, often more urban, counterparts.»

Math and science classes are often less advanced than their titles would imply; barely half of rural districts offer any Advanced Placement courses, compared with 97 percent of urban districts, and even fewer offer International Baccalaureate courses.

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:

With position allotments, advocates say, small and rural districts — which often struggle to recruit and retain teachers — can net top teaching candidates without worrying about the budget implications.

«Often we have kids coming to kindergarten who don't know their letters and numbers,» said Cole, explaining that children in rural districts who don't have access to pre-K are often cared for by family members and don't always get the educational supports that are provided by pre-K progOften we have kids coming to kindergarten who don't know their letters and numbers,» said Cole, explaining that children in rural districts who don't have access to pre-K are often cared for by family members and don't always get the educational supports that are provided by pre-K progoften cared for by family members and don't always get the educational supports that are provided by pre-K programs.

The fact that governments (including school districts) are major employers, especially in rural areas, along with the struggle reformers often have in explaining the nuances of teacher pay (and moving away from over-simplification that lead to Matt Damon moments) should also help the NEA's and AFT's cause.

As of now, to address teacher shortages — particularly in rural and low - income districts — school districts are often forced to place teachers in subjects outside of their area of expertise.

Since school districts are dependent primarily on local property taxes and often have a depressed economic base, this investment helped the Institute demonstrate how important it is for the legislature to increase funding to poor, rural schools in the state.