• Hire a «rural education coordinator,» who would play matchmaker between college students interested in teaching and
rural school districts looking to hire educators.
Not exact matches
At a time when many
school administrators are
looking to stretch dollars and teaching time, some
rural school districts are compressing the
school week into four longer class days.
Saving a Community's Heart: The Small
Rural School At the center of many small, rural communities is the school — and as states look for ways to save money, more small districts are being consolid
Rural School At the center of many small, rural communities is the school — and as states look for ways to save money, more small districts are being consoli
School At the center of many small,
rural communities is the school — and as states look for ways to save money, more small districts are being consolid
rural communities is the
school — and as states look for ways to save money, more small districts are being consoli
school — and as states
look for ways to save money, more small
districts are being consolidated.
The final profile
looks at an unlikely collaboration between a
district and charter
school in
rural Idaho.
What began as a pulse - check of
rural schools» use of technology to address the obstacles facing their communities evolved into a deep
look at what is working to increase college and career readiness and economic opportunity in historically underserved
districts.
NSBA
looks forward to working with Congress and the Administration in addressing the flexibility states and local
school districts need to ensure equity and excellence in public education; such as the development of innovative programs that address the unique needs of each
school district and respective community, programmatic flexibility and compliance for
rural districts, and recruitment and retention of highly effective teachers and leaders.
A report on
rural schools looking at data from the 2013 - 14
school year found that more than 20 percent of all public
school students in the United States are enrolled in
rural school districts, which is over 9.7 million students.
The journal featured the partnership in two blog posts, one by REL Northwest researchers Havala Hanson and Jennifer Esswein, who describe the urgent conditions that led to the research - practice partnership's formation, and another by Homedale
School District Superintendent Rob Sauer, who writes about the challenges facing Idaho's
rural districts and how data and evidence are needed to create a common language for collaborators as they
look for solutions.
The study
looks at class sizes, student - to - teacher, student - to - administrator and teacher - to - administrator ratios in suburban,
rural and city
school districts, teacher pay and the demographics of teachers between 2009 and 2014, using data from the Department of Public Instruction and
school district data from the U.S. Department of Education.
The law encourages local
districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could
look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or
rural / high poverty
schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.
Looking closer at one of Idaho's
rural communities, Bingham County in eastern Idaho has seen stagnant or declining enrollment in its
district - run public
schools over the last three years (Table 1).
The data, which
looked at 21 urban
school districts, shows that urban education still lags behind the country's suburban and
rural schools, and that while cities gained a bit of ground on math, reading scores were stagnant.
One of us recently asked a local
school district superintendent in a largely
rural state to identify the most important qualities he
looked for when hiring new teachers.