Sentences with phrase «rural states where»

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.

Not exact matches

That's not so easy when you are in the minority, and in a party where progressives are pushing hard left - perhaps appealing more to coastal and city voters than those in rural areas in red states.

That same rural / urban divide is evident in my home state — Missouri — where as many as 60 % of rural residents lack access to high - speed Internet.

In states where farming is a common industry (Iowa, Wisconsin), you'll find plates that depict rural life.

But Kentucky, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alaska, and other Medicaid expansion states have all seen massive drops in their uninsurance rates after adopting it, providing a boon in rural regions where many hospitals regularly see patients who can't afford their care.

In his book released Monday, «Our 50 - State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America,» Buffett took a nuanced approach to Trump's border wall and examined his personal interaction with drug addicts in the rural Arizona and Illinois counties where he serves as a volunteer sheriff's deputy.

The blow would fall heavily on the states whose coal provides most of our electricity and on rural areas where electric costs have the most impact.

However, now living in a very rural environment where county law enforcement is 40 minutes away, and we rely on officers from another county, city, or state (hopefully they are available) in an emergency, I advocate sensible firearms possession for the sake of protection of personal protection, livestock, and hunting.

Where does private funding come from in places like rural areas of Rust Belt states?

In some areas of the United States, especially rural areas where obstetricians are less available, family practitioners handle most of the deliveries.

I think it is horrible that the state can deciede where you need to have your baby — I live in Kentucky and I don't understand this especailly since some towns are so rural.

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

And in a state like New York where the party lines are drawn Democratic for the most part in urban areas and Republican in the suburbs and rural reaches, it's easy to figure out who is the winning bet, or you could say, a smart investment.

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.

The governor painted a dark future of «devastating» hospital and nursing home closures across the state — particularly in rural Adirondack communities where Medicaid - dependent hospitals are already operating on some of the lowest margins in the country.

And in recent days, Mr. Flanagan has shown flashes of political sophistication in his own party, working outward from his base on Long Island — where nine Republican state senators, including Mr. Skelos, live — while reassuring more conservative upstate Republicans on issues like the Safe Act, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's 2013 gun control law, which he supported but many rural residents abhor.

This problem extends across the United States, where underserved rural populations do not have access to wastewater disposal.

This issue requires carefully constructed cost - effectiveness studies carried out in the environments where the interventions will be implemented; these are likely to differ between cities in the United States and in other countries and between rural and urban areas.»

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.

Between 10 - 20 people in the United States are infected each year from flea or rodent bites, mainly in the rural southwest where prairie dogs sometimes carry the bacterium.

«Each of these priority states share common concerns for balancing the needs of rural communities, where access to job coaching and behavioral supports is challenging, with urban centers, where caseloads are extremely large,» explained Elaine E. Katz, MS, CCC - SLP, senior vice president of grants and communications at Kessler Foundation.

In contrast, the locally based Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) had thousands of observers on the ground and subsequently cited numerous irregularities during the process, ranging from the state's domination over the administrative apparatus, security forces, and media, to the lack of transparency on the registration process, which was considerably higher in rural Mugabe strongholds, compared to urban areas where support for the MDC is more prevalent.

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.

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.

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.

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.

States too often cut with an axe, limit or prevent rural charter schools outright, where a scalpel is needed.

States should develop policies that acknowledge the challenge of opening and operating rural charter schools but also allow charter operators, school districts, and state officials to consider where and when charter schools might be a useful reform strategy.

This week: how rural schools are bringing cutting - edge tech to their students, the wave of teacher strikes across the country and their implications for CA and the value of teacher diversity especially in a state where students of color now comprise three - quarters of public school enrollment.

Heine surveyed 200 rural high school counselors on where kids struggled most, and wrote and sent a college guide to every principal in nine states.

I want to make sure we don't go down a path where it looks really good in one area at the expense of a big portion of our state — because we have a large part of our state that is rural.»

The state would have to examine ways to compensate high quality teachers in rural areas where there may not be a low performing school to move to, Hall said, otherwise smaller districts will likely suffer from a lack of quality teachers.

In states like Montana, where enrollment in rural districts is expected to increase and districts have limited resources to support students in remote areas, online credit recovery programs are an attractive option for keeping students on track for graduation, according to the study.

She is an associate professor of Educational Leadership and chair of the Curriculum, Instruction, and Foundational Studies Department at Boise State University, where her research focus on poverty, rural education, school improvement, and leadership development.

It's always been hard to get ahead in the largely poor and rural state of Mississippi, where the median household income is the lowest in the U.S..

We begin our series on rural schools by looking at a state where the fight has been particularly fierce: Vermont.

The benefits of where I work are the excellent education, the customer - service focus of the highly qualified teachers, and greater accessibility to a child in any county, whether in a rural area in the southern part of the state or the urban neighborhoods of Atlanta.

The message of «enough is enough» resounded across the state, from urban to rural districts, and even in well - to - do suburban communities like Ridgewood, where residents are particularly proud of their schools.

The reality of the situation, however, is that spending differences are not just dollar amounts — spending $ 100 on a child in rural Alabama will probably go a lot further than $ 100 in Manhattan because purchasing power changes depending on where you're at in the United States.

We experienced our first M Hybrid in rural Michigan, where traffic and traffic enforcement are nonexistent, so beyond puttering out of the parking lot and a few four - way stops, driving is a high - speed, steady - state affair.

In more rural states, or in states where few people rent, this may vary of course.

Non-USDA licensed kennels are also found throughout the State, often in rural areas where animals (and barking) can be «hidden» from neighbors.

To get there, fly to Munich, the state capital, where you can rent a car and explore the region's scenic rural roads at your own pace.

Democrats recognize the importance of climate leadership at the local level and know that achieving our national clean energy goals requires an active partnership with states, cities, and rural communities where so much of our country's energy policy is made.

Because of our state's rich organic resources, biogas system development will foster economic development in rural and depressed areas of the state, providing jobs and investment where they are needed most.

UHI is tackled in Section Three, but briefly, he observed that temperatures were routinely around 1 degree C (around 1.8 F) higher in cities than in rural areas, and cites the United States where differences of 2.8 to 15 degrees (F) are noted between the voluntary observers in rural areas, and the paid ones in the adjacent cities.

Even though rural counties (including Nye County, where the project would be located) support the project, the state has filed 218 challenges to the DOE's license application, and even denied a federal government water permit.

On one level the Cuomo plan seems like a decent compromise (presuming you assume a complete ban is off the table), appealing both to environmental sense (the areas were reportedly selected to minimize risk of groundwater contamination), local control (the towns can opt out part), as well as economic justice (the areas where fracking would be allowed are some of the poorest rural areas of the state).

A quiet but sure revolution in sustainable development has been underway for the last 35 years in India's desert state of Rajasthan, where a new model of rural empowerment and education has taken form in the so - called Barefoot College, an alternative, community - based learning centre that trains rural citizens in the practical training programs for solar engineering, rainwater harvesting, computer programming, midwifery and even photography.

In a judgment released earlier today (Speciality Produce Limited v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2014] EWCA Civ 225), the Court of Appeal dealt with a case where the claimant, SPL, had sought judicial review of an initial decision by the Rural Payments Agency derecognising it as a producers organisation under the relevant EU Regulation.