Sentences with phrase «rural districts where»

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

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

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

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We don't know where those people are; Rural counties are incentivized to overreport population to receive more benefits from higher levels of government, while city districts report lower figures to hit population control targets.

The modern city, where more and more of us want to live, enjoys its munificence at the expense of the rural areas as Arthur E. Holt has forcibly brought home in This Nation Under God.6 Those fortunate enough to live in suburbs or other desirable residential districts enjoy their space and light partly through the exploitation of the crowded and blighted areas.

More than half of public school districts in the United States are in rural communities where millions of students struggle with poverty and hunger.

According to Mother Jones, the director of a rural Vermont district where 43 percent of the students are on free or reduced lunch said he «had no problems whatsoever implementing the new changes.»

That shift benefits downstate, largely Democratic districts, at the expense of upstate senate seats held by GOP members, where the inmates were used to bolster population numbers in the primarily rural districts.

State education groups previously expressed concerns about reporting by school — particularly for rural and suburban districts where there is very little variety between school buildings so costs can not always be assigned to a particular building.

Democrats have landed a top recruit in a rural Maine district where candidate profiles matter — even more so than most places.

In order to take advantage of a potential presidential wave, Democratic operatives are cutting emotional ties from some rural areas that made up their previous majority, such as downstate Illinois and parts of Ohio, to focus on more suburban districts, where they believe changing demographics are moving seats into the Democratic column.

Chris Collins is well known in the most populated parts of the congressional district as former Erie County executive while David Bellavia is from the more rural parts of the district where he's best known as a combat soldier and writer.

Further ordered that the findings contained therein be utilized in carrying out departmental missions, especially within the areas of capital programming, sewer district extensions, agricultural district activity, review of municipal development actions under General Municipal Law § 239 (L) & (M), water and sewer system approvals, SEQR reviews, and all other activities that influence where and how development occurs within Erie County's rural areas.

The Senate and Assembly also want to wipe out this year the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which primarily reduced funding to suburban and rural school districts - especially districts on Long Island, where Flanagan is from.

A new law counts them in their home districts, and not in the communities where they're incarcerated — a change that the GOP says benefits Democrat - leaning downstate regions at the expense of more rural Republican - held upstate districts.

The charity VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas) took Jaime to the district of Kitui in rural Kenya, where he worked in a secondary school teaching chemistry to African pupils.

Wierzbowska and her team took advantage of Poland's strict management of its rural lands, which are divvied up into 49 hunting districts where the mortality of game species must be reported every year.

In this rural county, where school buses still sometimes travel on dirt roads, the Flat Stanley Project allowed students «to see things they would never see,» says Pat Hendrickson, a district technology coach.

The district consists of high - poverty to middle - class schools, rural, suburban, and demographically diverse urban schools — including one where over 60 languages are spoken.

Nearly 10 million children attend schools in rural places, and there are more than 7,600 school districts in the United States where more than half of students attend rural schools.

But this hasn't always been the case, and it's certainly not the case in many school districts, where underserved communities of minority, low - income, and rural families don't always have the tools to become involved.

States should develop policies that acknowledge the challenge of opening and operating rural charter schools but also allow charter operators, school districts, and state officials to consider where and when charter schools might be a useful reform strategy.

And particular regions, like rural districts, where it's difficult to find qualified teachers, are also especially strained.

To help those students, Quitman County has joined other rural districts to form the Mississippi Public School Consortium for Educational Access to provide advanced coursework for all high school students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstances.

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.

In Mississippi, where more than 56 percent of students attend rural schools, Title I funding could be cut by $ 7 million, with the largest cuts taking place in five high - poverty Mississippi Delta districts.

The state would have to examine ways to compensate high quality teachers in rural areas where there may not be a low performing school to move to, Hall said, otherwise smaller districts will likely suffer from a lack of quality teachers.

In states like Montana, where enrollment in rural districts is expected to increase and districts have limited resources to support students in remote areas, online credit recovery programs are an attractive option for keeping students on track for graduation, according to the study.

The veto came after the Legislature reduced the amount of money Walker initially proposed in the budget to help districts in rural areas, where many of the low - revenue districts are located.

Online charters have become a formidable presence in rural districts in Pennsylvania, where the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School enrolls almost 12,000 students.

Providing a rigorous pre-college curriculum has long been a struggle in many of the more than 7,100 U.S. rural school districts, where a lack of teachers, dwindling enrollment numbers and tight budgets make it difficult to offer electives, foreign languages and even basic classes that are a given in many suburban and urban schools.

The unique struggles facing these rural students is apparent in Idaho, where 88 percent of school districts are located in rural areas and only 52 percent of high school seniors go on to postsecondary education.

In addition, declining enrollment in many small, rural districts further decreases the resources available under revenue limits, adding financial challenges to districts where enrollments are already low.

These new requirements have caused major problems in obtaining qualified teachers in subjects (special education, science, math) and areas (rural, inner cities) where schools districts already have teacher shortages.

The message of «enough is enough» resounded across the state, from urban to rural districts, and even in well - to - do suburban communities like Ridgewood, where residents are particularly proud of their schools.

He has been teaching for 34 years, in a rural, lower - class school district where education is not particularly valued.

The problem seems especially acute for public school districts in rural areas, where...

The majority of the country's diverse Mayan population resided mainly in the interior of Toledo (where they constituted some 57 percent of the district's people) and the rural areas of Stann Creek, Orange Walk, and Corozal.

Experience the rural charms of Canggu village where verdant rice terraces stretch out towards a renowned surf beach on the distant outskirts of the Kuta district.

Now it's gone back to its proper name of Film Row, which was the film exchange district where you, when back in the day, you'd come in and get all your movies and pick them up and take them out into the different rural areas.

The cash is expected to lower the burden on prosecutors, especially in poorer and rural districts, where the workload discrepancy is stark.»

One such court is the Eastern District of Texas, a rural area with almost no manufacturing, research, or technology facilities, where more than one - third of all patent cases in the country were filed last year.

A rural local authority district is one where the majority of residents live in rural areas.