Of the state's 115 local school boards, only a few small rural districts don't pay any additional supplements on top of the state's base salary.
Not exact matches
Our
small school
district in
rural Nebraska
does breakfast before school, and although my girls
do not go, I would say that it is a nice blend of students (not just economically disadvantaged kids) and works fairly well.
Hundreds of
districts across the nation, most of them
small and
rural, already
do just that.
Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch thinks the current teacher - evaluation law doesn't work well in
small,
rural districts and doesn't cover enough teachers, among other complaints.
Federal School Improvement Grants are usually passed through the state and on to school
districts, but
small rural districts often don't have the capacity to administer the grants themselves.
Whether you are in a
small rural district with a handful of ELLs or a large urban
district with a primary population of ELLs, you know that meeting the diverse needs of these learners is essential to the work we
do as educators every day.
«
Small and
rural districts, as well as financially strapped
districts,
do not have the capacity to complete competitive grant applications.»
The
small,
rural districts tend to have almost as much difficulty attracting and retaining teachers as
do the central city
districts.
Any cut to central office is really difficult, especially for your more
rural,
smaller districts that don't have a large tax base for counties to supplement.»
The legislature was focused on the problems in Denver and other Front Range school
districts, taking little notice of the good work being
done in the rest of Colorado, particularly in Colorado's
small,
rural schools.
For instance, more than half of
rural districts experience teacher shortages, as
do a third of
small and high - need
districts (Figure 6).
That
does not mean, however, that
smaller — and in particular
rural —
districts need not apply.
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.
Niles
District Library is
doing the Social Workers in
Rural and
Small Libraries project.