Why Rural Matters 2009 is the fifth in a series of biennial reports analyzing the contexts and conditions of
rural education in each of the 50 states and calling attention to the need for policymakers to address rural education issues in their respective states....
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The biggest victims of “number weighting” in the distribution of Title I funds are high poverty small cities. Title I funds are intended to provide additional federal support to school districts to help meet the needs of students with extra learning challenges, especially challenges related to poverty. But a change to the formula — the number weighting provision — means that many large districts with low rates of student poverty are getting a lot more Title I funding per student that smaller districts with high rates of student poverty…...
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In light of the Rural Trust's current limited financial resources, we regret to announce that the Rural Education Working Group annual gathering will not be held in 2010....
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This edition of RPM includes a set of stories related to school consolidation initiatives and state responses: a West Virginia legislative study ties higher dropout rates to large districts and schools; Mississippi’s governor wants to eliminate many districts without examining research evidence; and two rural Arkansas districts are seeking an innovative response to that state’s minimum enrollment law. There’s important analysis of the devastating effects on high poverty districts of changes to the Title I formula; South Carolina ramps up efforts to recruit teachers; Rural Trust loses a good friend; Rural School Funding News; and more…
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A legislative analysis finds that school and district size are the most predictive factors in whether students graduation from high school......
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Question: In nine states, more than 10% of rural students are English Language Learners. What are the nine states?
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