Sentences with phrase «schools in rural areas who»

The state's chief of schools is proposing to «level the playing field» among school districts by giving extra money to schools in rural areas who have trouble matching salaries offered by wealthier districts.

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.

«To support more opportunities for the girl child, especially those in the rural areas and those who were not opportune to go to school, we are planning on setting up six Women Development Centres to make it easier for them to access projects and programmes set up by government to better their living conditions», she said.

The formula included weights for housing prices, minority, English - as a second language learners, children with special needs, children who are permitted free school meals, schools located in rural under - privileged areas, rusting economic areas and with high percentages of «working classes».

High school graduate workers who reside in rural areas or small - to medium - size metro areas have suffered substantial job loss in the past few decades, especially in manufacturing.

Of the children who are in school today — especially those in rural areas — 50 per cent of the mothers have probably not had any schooling or very little schooling, which means that the ability at home to help children with learning is very low.

Similar findings were reported in the Plowden Report in England, which compared children from the informal schools of rural areas with children who attended the more formal schools of urban centers.

«Rural education is so context - dependent,» says Tieken, who is researching schools in Arkansas and Mississippi, and has also taught in rural areas of Vermont and TenneRural education is so context - dependent,» says Tieken, who is researching schools in Arkansas and Mississippi, and has also taught in rural areas of Vermont and Tennerural areas of Vermont and Tennessee.

Similarly, how does taxpayer support of home - schoolers, who form a confederacy around the charter banner but rarely see one another, advance civic cohesion in suburban towns and rural areas?

This project involves young female school graduates who are members of Camfed's alumnae network return to their local schools, in rural areas, to act as role models and mentors for marginalised girls.

In rural areas, a solution more immediate than hiring Hispanic teachers and paraprofessionals may be to recruit and train promotores — staff who provide families with advice, encouragement, and assistance in unfamiliar aspects of schools and their organizational culturIn rural areas, a solution more immediate than hiring Hispanic teachers and paraprofessionals may be to recruit and train promotores — staff who provide families with advice, encouragement, and assistance in unfamiliar aspects of schools and their organizational culturin unfamiliar aspects of schools and their organizational culture.

More suburban public school parents anticipate that their child will go to a four - year college full time (57 %) than parents who live in urban areas (45 %) or rural areas (38 %).

School districts from coast to coast are launching ambitious initiatives to attract and retain teachers, especially teachers who belong to minority groups and teachers certified in critical - need areas or those willing to teach in urban or rural schools.

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.

Morgan's u-turn followed an uprising against forced academisation from backbench Tory MPs who were particularly concerned about the potential impact on smaller schools in rural areas.

For example, IDEA supported local communities that were developing and implementing early childhood programs; schools serving students with low - incidence disabilities, such as children who are blind or deaf or children with autism or traumatic brain injury; and schools in rural or large urban areas, where financial and other resources are often scarce.

This report examines the extent to which teachers who are not fully certified are disproportionately assigned to teach in high - poverty schools, schools with high proportions of students of color, English learners, or students with disabilities, and schools located in rural or urban areas.

This year's eight fellows were selected from a pool of over 1200 applications from teachers and instructional specialists serving in traditional public and charter schools, as well as alternative and private schools; from nearly every state, grade level and instructional area, and who teach in a wide variety of urban, rural and suburban settings.

Dennis Shirley, also of Boston College and who read Stephen E. Ambrose's Lewis and Clark biography Undaunted Courage to get in the mood for the road trip, points to the «incredible resilience and heroism» of rural educators, who often work in schools without counselors our art and music teachers and live in areas that often are losing population.

Chief Inspector of Schools Sir Michael Wilshaw has called for the Government to create «National Service Teachers» who could be deployed to schools in under - achieving ruralSchools Sir Michael Wilshaw has called for the Government to create «National Service Teachers» who could be deployed to schools in under - achieving ruralschools in under - achieving rural areas.

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.

«High quality virtual charter schools provide valuable options to families, particularly those who live in rural areas where brick - and - mortar schools might not have the capacity to provide the range of courses or other educational experiences for students,» she wrote.

Such things have been known to happen in very small, rural schools where smaller student bodies necessitate that teachers teach in multiple subject areas and even administrators teach some classes, but even in these cases, those who teach in a subject area generally have at least a minor in that subject.

We welcome articles on serving immigrant students, ELLs, and homeless youth; solutions for resource shortages in rural areas; and supports for low - income students who attend relatively affluent suburban schools.

PARSS began in 1983 as a group of public school superintendents who expressed concern that Pennsylvania students in rural and small school districts did not have access to the same quality of education afforded to students attending school in the more metropolitan areas of the state.

Vouchers don't provide an actual choice for students living in rural areas who have few, if any, access points to schools other than their local public schools.

Through the program, the council provides veterinary education loan repayments from the fund to eligible veterinarians who have graduated from an accredited doctor of veterinary medicine school; currently live in Colorado or, at some point, have lived in Colorado for at least three years; and agree to practice veterinary medicine for up to four years in a rural area of the state that is experiencing a shortage of veterinarians that the council designates for participation in the program.

People in this area have endured years of seeing Labour hatred of the countryside and the people who live there and the imposition by the urban elite of their will over rural folk (ban on fox hunting, closure of village post offices, closure of bus services, ruination of farmers, school closures, neglected roads etc etc).

I, for one, as a person who lives in a rural area, have to drive 2 hours in good traffic to visit either the great library (Osgoode Hall) in Toronto or to York University (Osgoode Law School) law library.

Individuals in rural areas or those who are not able to relocate for graduate school have found our distance program to be just what they need.