Sentences with phrase «rural schools remains»

How, and if, the ruling results in concrete improvements in funding for the state's rural schools remains to be seen.

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A rural cemetery containing the remains of 14 boys who died while they were inmates at a state reform school in Rush will be returned to the state more than 20 years after being sold as part of a land deal.

The remaining members were: Mandy Nayton CEO of the Dyslexia SPELD Foundation; Professor Pamela Snow, Head of the La Trobe Rural Health School; Steven Capp, principal of Bentleigh West Primary School; Professor Geoff Prince, Director of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute; and Allason McNamara, a mathematics teacher at Trinity Grammar, Victoria, and President of the Australia Association of Mathematics Teachers.

A private Montessori school in rural Minnesota last week cleared a key hurdle on its way to becoming the nation's first «charter» school, able under state law to receive public funds while remaining free from most outside control.

Supporters include the Colorado Rural Electric Association, CSU's Academic Enhancement Program, and, more recently, the Center forMulti - scale Modeling of AtmosphericProcesses (CMMAP), a CSU groupfunded by the National ScienceFoundation that is studying cloudformation and how it affects climate.Though Little Shop acceptsdonations from the schools it visits, Jones is firm in his stance thatthese remain donations only.

In addition, while the Florida study shows that although the «negative effects of entering a middle school are somewhat smaller outside of urban districts,... they remain substantial even in rural areas.»

When faced with soaring transportation costs and students on buses for as long as four hours each day, some rural school districts pared the fifth day of instruction into fourths and tacked this time onto the end of the remaining four weekdays, creating a four - day school week.

New technologies and staffing strategies allow rural schools to increase the number of students receiving high - quality instruction, even when the supply of local teachers remains limited.

It must be said, however, that the digital divide (in terms of race, income and location in terms of rural communities) remains a key factor that some studies indicate are leading to even greater disparities between well - to - do and disadvantaged schools and districts.

Many rural teachers are happy to spend an entire career in a single school, and many people born in rural America find that teaching is one of the few careers «that will allow them to remain in the place they love.»

The results suggest that the negative effects of entering a middle school are most pronounced in cities, but they remain sizable even in rural areas, confirming that the negative effects of configurations that separate the middle - school grades are by no means limited to urban school districts.

We find that moving to a middle school causes a substantial drop in student test scores (relative to that of students who remain in K — 8 schools) the first year in which the transition takes place, not just in New York City but also in the big cities, suburbs, and small - town and rural areas of Florida.

The report says 57 million remain without schools and at the current rate it will be 2086 before access is reached for poor, rural African girls.