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Moments after the announcement, Noelle Ellerson of the American Association of School Administrators weighed in on Twitter with yet another critique, pointing out that participating districts are all urban and thus the experiment may not be relevant to the large number of rural school districts in California and across the U.S.

Strategies for Technology Enhanced Learning and Literacy through Art (STELLAR) is a collaborative professional development initiative involving five high - poverty, rural school districts in Lane County, Oregon, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA), the Lane Education Service District, the Oregon Writing Project, the University of Oregon's Center for Advanced Technology in Education and VTS.

Our membership comprises the small, mid-sized and rural school districts in Texas.

Currently, the Sparsity Aid Program aims to offset the challenges faced by the smallest, most rural school districts in the state through providing $ 300 in per - pupil funding for districts with enrollments of 745 or less and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile.

From EdWeek: Rural school districts in Colorado would receive help finding and keeping teachers if legislation passed by state lawmakers last week is signed by the governor, according to a story by The Colorado Independent.

The Professional Learning Community Model for Alternative Pathways in Teaching Science and Mathematics (PLC - MAP) is a partnership of North Harris Montgomery Community College, Texas A&M University, and 11 urban, suburban, and rural school districts in the Greater Houston area.

Swennes been in education for 17 years, all of those spent in rural school districts in Eastern Colorado; this is her 8th year as principal in the Big Sandy School District.

He has provided creative and purposeful solutions to state departments of education, superintendents, principals, curriculum directors, the CCSSO, and teacher leaders in over 100 urban, suburban, and rural school districts in the US, Canada, and Central America.

And more than 40 percent of all small, rural school districts in the country have serious difficulties filling vacant teaching positions.

The projects have served over 2,000 schools in more than 300 urban, suburban, and rural school districts in 36 states and Washington, D.C. Based on the core premise that educators have the greatest impact on student learning across various in - school factors, TIF awards competitive grants to States, districts, or partnerships with non-profit organizations.

Several rural school districts in northeast Texas have been besieged by both rumors and reporters following the announcement that 6 of 197 students in one area high school tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS.

The study examines the unions» goals and leadership as well as the role they played in three small suburban and rural school districts in New York State from the early 1960's to the late 1970's.

A small, rural school district in southwest Texas is introducing what may be the first wind turbine technician program for U.S. high school students,...

When the leaders of a rural school district in South Dakota decided to adopt a four - day school week this fall, they had a familiar example to follow.

Yet, more than five years ago, a small rural school district in the Central Valley that serves predominately English language learners from low - income families reimagined its entire strategic approach to education and learning.

St. Mary's County Public Schools (SMCPS) is a rural school district in Leonardtown, Maryland.

Mark Gardner is a National Board Certified High School English Teacher living and working in a transition suburban - rural school district in southwest Washington state.

How did leaders in a rural school district in middle Georgia consistently improve math outcomes for traditionally underperforming students?

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She has dedicated her career to working in schools throughout Ohio and has spent the past seven years heading up the food program for Cloverleaf Local Schools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of Cleschools throughout Ohio and has spent the past seven years heading up the food program for Cloverleaf Local Schools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of CleSchools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of Cleveland.

She has dedicated her career to working in schools throughout Ohio and has spent the past seven years heading up the food program for Cloverleaf Local Schools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of Cleschools throughout Ohio and has spent the past seven years heading up the food program for Cloverleaf Local Schools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of CleSchools, a small school district nestled in rural Lodi, about an hour southwest of Cleveland.

Our small school district in rural Nebraska does breakfast before school, and although my girls do not go, I would say that it is a nice blend of students (not just economically disadvantaged kids) and works fairly well.

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

Throughout Vermont an increasing number of schools benefit from universal free meals, including small schools in the rural counties of the Northeast Kingdom, some schools in Burlington, the entire Winooski school district and the entire Southwest Vermont Supervisory Union.

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A rural Upstate New York school district that installed Wi - Fi on its school buses has seen improvement in students» behavior.

Upstate, rural school districts say they're being disproportionately cut in Cuomo's budget.

About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.

While thousands of students have left rural public districts, poverty rates in these schools have increased, according to the analysis by the New York State Association of School Business Officials.

He finished 139 votes behind Cecilia Tkaczyk, a former Senate aide who serves on a rural school board and had a de minimus public profile in the five - county district before two Super PACs spent $ 500,000 pushing her candidacy.

So there willl continue to be cuts... but especially upstate, they were disproportionately hit in terms of rural districts and small city school districts.»

Flanagan had publicly said that the Senate would not approve a budget unless the budget totally eliminated something called the Gap Elimination Adjustment, which took millions of dollars in school aid away from suburban and rural school districts.

The Pressure Station is located in a rural residential neighborhood and, in the event of a major explosion, as those that have occurred elsewhere in the US with similar facilities, the pipe line company proposes the use of the local Minisink School District Buildings, in Slate Hill to be designated as an evacuation center.

De Blasio said there's a «tremendous feeling for public education» in the United States, including in rural districts and red states, and opposition to any ideas or proposals that might undercut resources for public schools.

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

The budget he signed in September increased funding for schools, but the new bill would target both rural and cash - strapped districts.

The bill would help pay for buses to drive kids in rural areas to the summer meal programs, increase access to farm - to - table foods, and also lower the threshold for school districts to qualify for free summer meal programs.

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.

It is in the less desirable and more troubled systems, the nation's urban and rural school districts, that administrators currently have tremendous difficulty finding sufficient numbers of certified teachers.

Breaux: New Teacher Induction provides overviews and contact information for more than 30 highly successful, easily replicable induction programs used in rural, urban, and suburban school districts across the United States.

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.

During my 17 years as a high school principal I have worked in districts that were rural economically disadvantaged as well as affluent suburban.

Federal grants are the main source of drug - education and prevention funding in more than half of the nation's rural school districts, the General Accounting Office has found.

are struggling with them in wealthy and in middle - and low - income schools; in rural, suburban, and urban districts; in magnet, regular, district, charter, parochial, and independent schools; along the coasts, in the American heartland, from south to north, and everywhere in between.»

To identify more precisely the independent effects of the multiple factors affecting teachers» choices, we use regression analysis to estimate the separate effects of salary differences and school characteristics on the probability that a teacher will leave a school district in a given year, holding constant a variety of other factors, including class size and the type of community (urban, suburban, or rural) in which the district is located.

«The bottom of the pool surface is very rough,» explained Barbara Spieler, the director of business services for the 3,800 - student Fillmore, Calif., school district, 55 miles north of Los Angeles in rural Ventura County.

In Arizona — a highly urbanized state with population primarily clustered in the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas — both charter and district schools are concentrated in urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areaIn Arizona — a highly urbanized state with population primarily clustered in the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas — both charter and district schools are concentrated in urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areain the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas — both charter and district schools are concentrated in urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areain urban areas, yet as of 2010 there were more than 200 charter schools operating in suburbs, towns, and rural areain suburbs, towns, and rural areas.

School districts that already had higher fractions of students enrolled in private schools, even accounting for the urban or rural location of the district, had a greater likelihood of having a charter school open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their students enrolled in chaSchool districts that already had higher fractions of students enrolled in private schools, even accounting for the urban or rural location of the district, had a greater likelihood of having a charter school open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their students enrolled in chaschool open in their district by 2003 — 04 and a greater share of their students enrolled in charters.

Better at When Than How As school districts around the country grapple with turnaround strategies and fiscal realities, school closure (and consolidation) has become a popular option in districts from Baltimore to Detroit, from Boston to Denver, even in rural places like Maine and North Dakota.

A 450 - student school district in rural East Texas last week canceled plans for its annual day on which girls dress as boys and vice versa, after a parent complained that the event smacked of promoting homosexuality.