Sentences with phrase «rural schools with»

Genesee Valley addressed two needs of rural schools with its crowd - sourced WEBOOKS: improved access to digital content and a way to do this at a time of devastating budget cuts.

As superintendent, he oversees four rural schools with more than 400 students, many of whom travel 30 minutes to an hour to get to and from school each day, according to the Utah School Superintendents Association (USSA), which honored him with the award this week.

VTS provides STELLAR participants both in - person and online professional development sessions with the goal of supporting rural schools with evidenced - based strategies that lead to the following student outcomes:

Caitlin Scott writes on a new REL Northwest study that uncovers challenges faced by rural schools with School Improvement Grants and shows the promise of technical...

There is no other aid that directly assists suffering rural schools with no strings attached.

Caitlin Scott writes on a new REL Northwest study that uncovers challenges faced by rural schools with School Improvement Grants and shows the promise of technical assistance when it comes to implementing evidence - based strategies.

A new program in rural Alaska seeks to halt this trend through a new program that pairs rural schools with big - city counterparts.

Abstract: Across the country, states are pushing to close their small rural schools with the mistaken hope of saving money, in spite of overwhelming evidence that smaller schools are beneficial for students, and that they frequently function as the glue that binds together small communities, serving as their economic and social hub.

During the first visit I saw rural schools with dirt floors, no books, and truly schools without walls — where only a thatched roof covered the heads of the students and teachers.

Aid based on enrollment may not be helpful for rural schools with declining numbers, Little said.

But Rozelle became aware of health issues during a 2009 visit to a rural school with Reynaldo Martorell, a maternal and child health and nutrition specialist at Emory University in Atlanta.

Everything I learned was filtered through what it meant to be a classroom teacher and what the implications might be for a rural school with Mexican - American students.»

I found out not so long ago when I was working for a small rural school with a timetabled literacy program.

Charter schools — and any other urban or rural school with high turnover — are essentially subsidizing benefits for those who stay.

Not exact matches

I student taught in a rural area of central Illinois - a school with two people who were black (and that was it for the racial diversity) so they created their own minorities thorugh religion.

Mother Mary McKillop founded schools for settler families in 19th century Australia and New Zealand... it wasn't just the heat and hardships in rural New South Wales, it was problems with the Bishop, muddles over funding, complications about the status of her Order...

Apart from the handful who were born in Ashland, they'd moved from Homer or Chicago or Coronado Island, in the first or third or ninth grade, reared in trailers or at friends» houses or in homes with hot tubs, the sons of teachers and attorneys and single mothers who had chosen to go back - to - the - land in a small town: population 15,000, liberal and rural, five crowded elementary schools.

A rural high school in Utah will not have the mythical handheld medical equipment needed to diagnose a concussion instantly, nor have officials with the resources and support needed to parse out the complexities of the latest targeting rules.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

Earlier this year, pelinks4u.org, an Internet newsletter specializing in physical education topics, told a story about maturity and selflessness in youth sports in rural Washington state: Michael Denny, the wrestling coach at Housel Middle School in Prosser, Wash., asked his counterpart at Morgan Middle School in Ellensburg, John Graf, if he knew of a Morgan wrestler who would agree to an exhibition match against a Housel wrestler with cognitive and physical disabilities.

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

Davis explained that 25 years ago, small, rural food programs were overpaying for, or unable to get goods because distributors had no incentive to send delivery trucks to schools with small orders in remote locations.

It also appears that SNA had developed regional splits, with Southern and rural school food - service directors less supportive of the new foods than those on the coasts.

Fort Bragg Unified School District — Pilar Gray Innovation: Noyo Food Forest: Growing Fresh Produce Consumption in a Remote Rural District In collaboration with a local nonprofit, the Noyo Food Forest, Nutrition Services helped create a small working farm on the district's high school cSchool District — Pilar Gray Innovation: Noyo Food Forest: Growing Fresh Produce Consumption in a Remote Rural District In collaboration with a local nonprofit, the Noyo Food Forest, Nutrition Services helped create a small working farm on the district's high school cschool campus.

Play Therapy for traumatized children in rural schools can be amplified through a systems approach that includes consultation with teachers and school systems and by expanding our view of «systems» to include nature, a readily available and under - utilized resource in play therapy.

Produced and directed by visionary youth sports parenting expert and author, Brooke de Lench, and drawing both on her experience as a parent of a concussed high school football and lacrosse player and as the founder and publisher of MomsTEAM.com ®, the acknowledged «pioneer» in youth sports concussion education, «The Smartest Team» documents how de Lench worked with a high school in rural Oklahoma to address the challenges concussions pose in football.

The Asantehene cited the Otumfuo Charity Foundation, a community development organisation which had an ICT programme, and said that could be a starting point for a possible partnership with Vodafone to roll out training programmes to help school children in rural communities.

Rural schools in Upstate New York are struggling with rapid declines in enrollment and increasing poverty, according to a report released today.

One implication of the different spatial distribution of people by race is that lots of metropolitan areas have de facto segregated schools, while Brown v. Board of Education and the cases that followed were quite effective in requiring schools in small towns and rural areas with racially mixed populations to be integrated, since they don't have many schools period and don't have nearly as great residential segregation into large nearly mono - racial groups of neighborhoods the way that many large cities do.

The administration of H.E John Dramani Mahama has really brought us hope with the many infrastructural projects dotted across the length and breadth of the kingdom such as the various Community Day Senior High School projects at various stages of completion such the Sapeliga SHS, Binduri SHS and Garu SHS, the Tamme Irrigation Dam, the Garu District Hospital, the Bawku Town Water system, the massive rural Electrification Expansion projects etc We are also glad that the Eastern Corridor Fiber Optic Cable which extends to the Bawku was successfully laid awaiting the next phase.

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.

Chazy Central Rural School's $ 10,728,470 spending proposal, which required a supermajority vote, was approved with just over 69 percent of voter support.

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.

But there is also a separate set of problems educators in smaller, rural schools deal with.

Rural schools in Upstate New York are struggling with rapid declines in enrollment and increasing poverty, according to a report released by the state Association of School Business Officials.

The least poorly funded schools tend to be rural schools in low income rural areas with an insufficient local tax base to support them and with high costs associated with a lack of economies of scale and large transportation costs for students.

The last administration swapped the allowance system with the students loan scheme and embarked on massive infrastructural development in the education sector with many new secondary schools built to increase enrollment especially, in our rural communities.

The Progressive Agreement contained a commitment that «the impact of current policy on surplus school places is reviewed, with emphasis on rural schools, to better take account of future growth trends».

Kyle Belokopitsky speaks on panel at Center for Rural Schools meeting in Cooperstown, along with Association of School Superintendents» Bob Lowry and political analyst Bruce Gyory.

This small measure actually has been proven to reduce rates of unintended pregnancy by up to 30 percent; it makes a big difference people with jobs, school, or who live in a rural community far from a pharmacy.

Just about every office was packed with groups such as school kids from rural North Dakota and other interest and scientific groups.»

It provides students with four to eight weeks of clinical training in a rural community during the summer between their first two years of medical school.

John Krumme, a fourth - year MU School of Medicine student completing a rotation in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, is considering a rural practice after his involvement with the Summer Community Program.

Using HUNT, a Norwegian population - based health cohort study based in a rural county with 130,000 residents, the Bristol Medical School team, with co-workers from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, were able to see how mortality in the parents related to both their own BMI (the conventional approach) and to the BMI of their adult children.

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health is launching the nation's first official obstetrics — gynecology residency program for «very rural» areas, with the first resident slated to be selected next month.

Majee, along with Urmeka Jefferson, assistant professor in the MU Sinclair School of Nursing, partnered with a county health agency serving a rural community with a population of 21,500 people; a high percentage of the communities» jobs were low - paying manufacturing jobs, and the population possessed poor education.

Lead author Dr. Peter Alexander, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences and Scotland's Rural College, said: «A mix of small changes in consumer behaviour, such as replacing beef with chicken, reducing food waste and potentially introducing insects more commonly into diets, would help achieve land savings and a more sustainable food system.»

However, I would encourage you to speak with students attending schools in various areas (rural, city) in order for you to make the best decision for your needs.

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.

She lived in South Africa, bringing mobile - based e-learning to rural schools, as well as mentoring social entrepreneurs in low - income townships and working with children affected by HIV / AIDS.