Sentences with phrase «rural schools leave»

The trend has long been that successful students in rural schools leave after high school.

Not exact matches

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.

Christina Alexander was the president of the sophomore class at Sherburne - Earlville Central School in rural Chenango County when the student body decided to retire its Indian mascot, while leaving the team's name - the Marauders — unchanged.

Nevertheless, advocates have pushed him to spend more, arguing urban and rural school districts have been left short changed by the state's complicated formula for funding schools.

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.

A past national vice chairman of the Conservative Rural Action Group, Richard took on a dairy farm after leaving school and has now grown it into a successful and diverse rural enterprise, including food production, food processing, commercial and residential propRural Action Group, Richard took on a dairy farm after leaving school and has now grown it into a successful and diverse rural enterprise, including food production, food processing, commercial and residential proprural enterprise, including food production, food processing, commercial and residential property.

«Around the world, people are leaving rural areas and moving into cities, potentially creating new opportunities to restore forests on abandoned farmland,» said co-author David Wilcove, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and public affairs in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Princeton Environmental Institute.

The young girl in question is a happy high school graduate preparing to leave her simple rural Minnesota home to begin college.

Eili Harboe generates sympathy and apprehension as the title character, a girl who's both thrilled and troubled to leave her religious parents» rural home for school in big, bad Oslo.

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.

In recent years (or even in recent decades), it has become all too common for folks to accept that our «best» teachers are the ones going to the well - funded, suburban schools, while our high - need schools — be they in urban or rural communities — are left wanting.

Kentucky is one of the nation's poorest states, is the eighth most rural state, underperforms on NAEP, needs school options, and is one of only eight states left with no charter law.

The for - profit company's effort in the rural South represents Edison's newest interest: helping states deal with the many schools listed as needing improvement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Teachers in rural schools will be able to convert their unused sick leave into one year of retirement credit.

Following earning his own certification, Maddin left rural teaching and helped start I.D.E.A. College Prep — a public charter school based in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, dedicated to getting students into top colleges.

The model was developed for rural schools because Colbert and her cofounders recognized that children in these communities have unique circumstances surrounding their schooling, such as the need to leave school during harvest season to work the family farm or single - classroom schools that serve many grade levels at once.

As Bush strategist Karl Rove explained in his book Courage and Consequence: «When Bush said education was the civil rights struggle of our time or that the absence of an accountability system in our schools meant black, brown, poor, and rural children were getting left behind, it gave listeners important information about his respect and concern for every family and deepened the impression that he was a different kind of Republican whom suburban voters... could be proud to support.»

When Kevin Sweeney left the private sector to join the Foisie Business School in 2012, it didn't take long for him to notice an opportunity to apply WPI's project - based learning model to the socio - economic issues in the region where he used to work: the Pioneer Valley, a mix of urban, rural, and suburban communities in western Massachusetts.

In this meeting, the Utah State Board of Education gave approval for the state to seek waivers offered by the federal government under No Child Left Behind; agreed to form a work group to study and make recommendations for an RFP for statewide assessments for Utah's core curriculum; and granted a requested from rural Juab County's Tintic School District to move to a four - day week for sSchool District to move to a four - day week for schoolschool.

The Monarch Center work continued his responsibility to assist with the development of special education teaching - training at tribal colleges; his primary work in Alaska was to respond to the need in rural and Alaska Native village schools for «highly qualified» paraprofessionals under No Child Left Behind.

Despite Walker's veto, there is enough money left in the state spending plan for the next two years to compensate for the additional $ 6.4 million increase Nygren is proposing for rural schools, Evenson said.

Cuba City High School principal Jim Boebel, left, gives a tour to lawmakers on the Rural Schools Task Force in 2014.

That leaves about 6.5 million students without it, and many of them attend rural schools that don't just lack the money to buy this access but also the local infrastructure that would facilitate it.

I left Milwaukee and flew to my next destination to work with a group of school superintendents in the rural southeast.

Poor schools both urban and rural have this in common: Teachers are leaving and it's having a big impact on kids.

Children living in historically underserved communities, both in urban and rural areas, arrive to school with medical and behavioral needs that are often left unaddressed.

In the heart of rural Indiana, Argos Community Schools struggles to survive as students leave.

The two other teachers left the school and now it is solely operated by Miller, who teaches her granddaughter, a neighbor's child and a student with special needs out of her home in rural Thomasville, 30 minutes away from its former location.

The little Negro school in your rural Virginia neighborhood only went up to sixth grade andyou wanted to go to seventh; just like that, you willed yourself to D.C., leaving your girlhood behind.

Leaving school at fourteen he worked at the Lintas agency, rambled around rural NSW on painting trips with close friend Brett Whiteley and studied at the Julian Ashton Art School and the National Art School in Sschool at fourteen he worked at the Lintas agency, rambled around rural NSW on painting trips with close friend Brett Whiteley and studied at the Julian Ashton Art School and the National Art School in SSchool and the National Art School in SSchool in Sydney.

I remembered seeing rhino when I was a child going to the parks, and when one of the guides told me a story in 2013 about how, when he grew up, rhinos would come through their rural schools and they would try to chase them away, and they were so common back then, and now there are none left.

I remember plenty of attorneys who left our metropolitan law school after graduation and returned to their rural hometowns to open up shop.