Sentences with phrase «rural public schools where»

Having flexible plan options can give mobile teachers, especially in urban and rural public schools where turnover is high, more secure retirement benefits.

Not exact matches

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

This week: how rural schools are bringing cutting - edge tech to their students, the wave of teacher strikes across the country and their implications for CA and the value of teacher diversity especially in a state where students of color now comprise three - quarters of public school enrollment.

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 circumstSchool Consortium for Educational Access to provide advanced coursework for all high school students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstschool students, regardless of where they live or their family circumstances.

Before attending Columbia, Jamie spent two years teaching English to seventh and eighth graders at a rural public school in southwest China, where her students tried to help her overcome a fear of large insects by putting cicadas in her hair.

That communities are profoundly dissatisfied with public schools is one of the myths used to champion policies that are wrapped in euphemisms such as «choice» and «competition» but have, where they have taken hold, often exacerbated the financial plight of rural schools.

Robinson is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he works on education policy issues including choice in public and private schools, regulatory development and implementation of K - 12 laws, the role of for - profit institutions in education, prison education and reentry, rural education, and the role of community colleges and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in adult advancement.

The DAR supports several schools throughout the country that began in rural and disadvantaged areas where public education was not accessible.

In particular, the study found severe accountability problems with both programs, most notably: they do not serve students in rural areas where there were virtually no private schools or scholarship organizations (SOs) present; they fund primarily religious schools, which are not required to be accredited or adhere to the same standards for curricula as public schools; they do not require the same testing requirements as public schools, making it impossible to gauge student achievement; and they do not require reporting by schools or SOs.

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

Tiffany Besonen was born and currently resides in rural Northern Minnesota, where she works on her mixed - media art, teaches art in public schools, and lives on a farm with her family.