Sentences with phrase «rural school where»

I worked in one rural school where the building was in such bad shape, kids tried to burn it down twice.

WCAX - TV reports Democratic Chairman Senator Dick Sears says the plan could especially benefit rural schools where police are often far away.

Such things have been known to happen in very small, rural schools where smaller student bodies necessitate that teachers teach in multiple subject areas and even administrators teach some classes, but even in these cases, those who teach in a subject area generally have at least a minor in that subject.

Not exact matches

My smartass ways were not playing well at my new rural school, where corn - fed country boys were disinclined to rhetorical thrust and parry.

This is most likely in small - town and rural congregations where allegiance to the Sunday School is still more powerful.

I'm currently in graduate school in a rural part of the US where nary a box of matzoh can be found so I wanted to bring the spirit of Hanukkah by making latkes for my friends.

Please check out http://www.School-Lunch.org to learn about a rural Vermont community where the school lunch menu sounds like it comes from an upscale bistro.

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

In a city or rural setting, day camps offer a camping experience closer to home, where the campers arrive and leave like a school day, but the entire focus is fun, and more fun.

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.

Chad comes to us from the Alliance for Quality Education where he served as Statewide Campaign Coordinator, working with small cities and poor rural areas to ensure adequate school funding regardless of zip code.

By school too as atm wealthy schools in big cities send to get more per pupil than schools like the one where my husband works which is very deprived, but in a rural county.

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.

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.

Researchers worked with two groups of children: a primary age group in rural South Ferriby, Lincolnshire, where a tidal surge breached the banks of the Humber; and a high school group in urban Staines - upon - Thames, Surrey where the Government declared a state of emergency and the army was drafted in to assist emergency services cope with tidal, rainfall, river and groundwater flooding.

Rural Pennsylvania for school, the Loire Valley for a semester abroad, San Francisco for a post-grad internship, back in Connecticut while I launched my online boutique, into New York where Will and I met, then to Dallas where Will is from, and now back to Connecticut where I grew up!

Our school is in a rural tourist area especially famous for Quechee Gorge, and we love so many things about where we live.

► Several scenes show a rural area in which homes, schools and a factory appear bombed out; we see broken bricks, debris and thick dust and all buildings appear abandoned, except a farmhouse where a young woman lives alone.

If You Build It follows designer / activists Emily Pilloton and Matthew Miller to rural Bertie county, the poorest in North Carolina, where they work with local high school students to help transform both their community and their lives.

Adam Sandler returns as Lenny, a Hollywood player who since the first film has moved his family to his rural hometown, where the kids can bike to school and Dad gets plenty of Guy Time with pals Eric (Kevin James), Kurt (Chris Rock), and Marcus (David Spade).

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.

These sessions included an update from NYMAZ on its innovative distance learning programme Conect: Resound — which uses Skype and other technologies to deliver instrument lessons to schools in rural locations where this might otherwise not be viable.

During two years of doing research, Chenoweth identified 15 schools representing a mixture of grade levels and urban, rural, and suburban settings where students were excelling despite poverty and other obstacles — and where kids were not spending endless hours on reading and math drills.

In a rural state like North Dakota, where schools are often 25 miles or more from a family's home, said the lawyer, Duane Houdek, access to a school bus «is very much access to education, especially when a family has no money» to pay transportation fees.

The program plans to send top journalism graduates to a rural community where they will live and teach journalism workshops and classes to high schoolers for a year.

Born in 1915 and 1914, respectively, they both grew up in Mississippi — my father in the small rural town of Utica, where his parents both taught at a boarding school, the only school for blacks within a 200 - mile radius; and my mother in Vicksburg, where her father was an Episcopal priest and her mother a schoolteacher.

«I think that means a lot in a rural context where the school is often the heart of all the opportunities that can be made for students.

«So, I took the royalties from the first edition of my book, In the Middle, and I cashed in my teacher retirement and built this small school in a small town - Edgecomb, in rural Maine, which is near where I live.

Anne Davies, a Canadian researcher who was hired by the state to do a qualitative study of the laptop project, spent four months — September, October, November 2002, and May 2003 — at Pembroke Elementary School in rural Washington County, the poorest county in the state, where the nearest supermarket is 25 miles away and the nearest bookstore is 75 miles.

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

Urban Phenomenon But in too many primary schools there is a tendency to think that cyberbullying does not affect their pupil community, especially in rural areas where some explained to the Cybersurvey that they saw «Cyberbullying as an urban phenomenon».

Some advocates have raised concerns about whether expanding school choice will help disadvantaged families, especially in rural areas and other places where there may not be many schools from which to choose.

School choice is hard in rural areas, yet that's where President - Elect Trump received some of his strongest support.

Catholic schools are (still) the most prevalent type of U.S. private school (except in rural areas, where they are scarce).

The bleak forecasts are fueling talk of pink slips and program cuts, especially in many urban and poor rural school systems where federal money pays for nearly 20 percent of school budgets.

Take the common misconception that rural schools, no matter where they are located, are basically the same.

In the Rio Grande Valley of rural Texas, where half the students at Edcouch - Elsa High School are children of migrant farm laborers, kids are reclaiming their heritage through oral histories, compiling a local business directory, and producing a monthly civic - affairs newsletter in Spanish and English.

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.

«People can get [to] urban schools more easily, so if you hear about it you can investigate it more easily, where in rural areas you often can't.»

Kathleen Budge is an associate professor at Boise State University, where her research and scholarly activity focuses on educational leadership, leadership development, rural education, school improvement, and poverty.

In this rural community where the unemployment rate is nearly 14 percent and there's no movie theater for miles around, school administrators say money isn't the recruitment tool it is in the big city.

In Afghanistan, for example, the country report suggests that there is little critical analysis of the media, and issues of access to media and information rise especially in rural areas, where newspapers are not published or distributed and multimedia materials such as CDs and DVDs can not be used in schools due to limited access to electricity.

School vouchers, for example, are unlikely to solve the problems facing students in the vast swaths of rural America where voters went heavily for Donald Trump.

AltSchool could fuel the growth of independent schools in rural areas where it doesn't plan to compete directly.

A similar thing can be said about principals working in rural areas, where we have seen that schools have less qualified and less experienced teachers than schools in urban areas.

A lot of the interviews were done in rural Queensland in Catholic education schools, where the majority of the teachers have not been in service that long — many of them are new graduates who are in rural communities — I would think that probably the median experience age / years of service for teachers might have been around four years.

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.

«So when you have so many problems and so many difficulties with these invisible schools, rural schools that were in Colombia and the rest of the Latin American world — these sort of isolated and invisible schools that don't even appear in the statistics — that's where we started.»

In an environment where young rural adults already suffer from isolation and low economic opportunity, the shorter school week could exacerbate their problems.