Sentences with phrase «upstate rural schools»
If Flanagan is so intent on keeping this seat he had better start realizing that our upstate rural school districts need a fair distribution of school aid.
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About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.
So there willl continue to be cuts... but especially upstate, they were disproportionately hit in terms of rural districts and small city school districts.»
The governor pushed for a major gun - control law that the State Legislature passed last year in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and it has proved unpopular in more conservative, rural counties upstate.
In fact, one of the two rejected schools, which would have been located in the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their propo...
About one - third of children in rural districts and about 37 percent in New York City were considered proficient in the skills they need in English and math, while just an average of 16 percent of students in upstate city schools performed well on the tests.
In fact, one of the two rejected schools, which would have been located in the beautiful upstate town of Truxton, would have been the first agriculture - based rural charter school in New York State and their proposal bears no resemblance to what we have become accustomed to seeing in the world of New York charters.
This isn't a scene you would have encountered a few years ago in this small rural school in upstate New York.