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.
Generally, states containing major cities pay higher wages on average than
mostly rural states.
It is crazy to let a small number of religious nuts from a
small rural state have this much say in an election.
This demonstrates that despite a highly - conservative political environment in
many rural states, there is no local push to create school voucher programs in many places given the fiscal and logistical challenges.
Yet
in rural states, securing qualified dual enrollment instructors, covering program costs and addressing program logistics is particularly challenging.
In Oklahoma, a mostly
rural state with large pockets of poverty around Tulsa, the biggest chunk of school improvement money is concentrated in six persistently low - performing schools in Tulsa.
In exchange, students spend their third and fourth years working in one of more than three dozen medical centers scattered around the largely
rural state of Maine.
One included several senators
from rural states who worked out the compromise with Crapo.
For
rural states like Montana, adequately financing the public schools is already difficult.
South Carolina is one of the
most rural states along the coastal region, which means that quite a bit of the population has limited access to medical and dental care.
It's worth noting that, compared with
other rural states, Vermont derives a lot of its economy from tourism, niche agriculture, and handicrafts.
«For
large rural states like Montana, and for inner - city school systems struggling with limited resources, the impact on education could be dramatic,» according to Mr. Burns.
What happens when you live in a
very rural state and there is virtually less than a puddle of men nearby in online dating?
However, America's electoral system is designed to
give rural states disproportionate weight in the Senate and in presidential elections.
Progressives and many 2020 presidential hopefuls in the Senate have lined up against the legislation, while some moderates and those from
rural states support it and seek to hold it up as an example of their ability to work in a bipartisan manner.
Gun control legislation is one of the few issues on which Clinton is decidedly left of Sanders,
whose rural state has lax firearms laws.
The rarity of charter schools in the most -
rural states raises the broader question about the viability of school choice in rural America.
Although New Hampshire is experiencing the highest rate of increasing diversity in the United States, a similar seismic shift is occurring throughout the
northern rural states, including in Montana, North Dakota, and Washington, she says.
Two Republican senators from large
rural states where school choice is logistically impossible (Maine and Alaska) crossed party lines and voted against DeVos, and both said they did so due to enormous pressure from constituents.
Kentucky and Vermont are both
overwhelmingly rural states that do not face the same challenges that states with large urban districts must tackle.
I still wonder why methanol is so ignored (well, I do not wonder; there is a very
powerful rural state - ethanol lobby).
While it would be useful to be able to drill down a bit further and see what parts of which states are experiencing over - or under - supply of attorneys, there's one inescapable trend here:
rural states need more lawyers and well - populated states generally have too many.
Indiana Life Insurance — Indiana is a mostly
rural state except for the Indianapolis and Chicago areas.
Wyoming is a
primarily rural state among the least populous in the U.S., but it has experienced growth in recent years with many people moving in from other states seeking work.
But during oral argument, some of the justices pointed out that even in
rural states police can call a magistrate and get a warrant over the phone in just a few minutes.
The healthcare worker shortage has had a heavy impact
on rural states like Iowa.
The institute now offers genetic counseling via telephone to patients in
largely rural states like Wyoming and Idaho, and are looking to expand further in the next few years, she said.
The largely poor and
rural state of Mississippi suffers from the highest rate of childhood poverty in the country, along with some of the lowest scores on standardized tests.
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.
For example, some conservative lawmakers in
rural states such as Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Texas have been pushing back on state efforts to legislate tax credit scholarships or education savings accounts.
Members of Congress
from rural states have tried for years to redirect money from the High Density States program run by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
He has defended his views on gun rights, saying firearm ownership in
rural states like his is largely associated with hunting, and he understands gun violence is a separate issue altogether in urban America.
▪ It's a
mostly rural state, which means less crime, cheaper cost of living and fewer accidents, all of which drives insurance rates lower.
I've heard of some RVers using P.O. Boxes as their permanent address in
more rural states.
The lobbyist said that
rural states would be most adversely impacted, noting that even though Trump's plan includes $ 50 billion in federal funding for rural infrastructure projects, that may be a high enough compensatory figure.
«For a person like me from
a rural state, a lot of times that retaliation is in regard to agriculture.
This largely
rural state, once known for its independence in voting for candidates» individual qualities over political party, has grown a deeper shade of red over the past decade as voters increasingly break toward GOP candidates.
Sanders has defended his position on guns, considering that he comes from
a rural state with few gun deaths and loose firearms laws.