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Rural Policy Matters: September 2009
Last Updated: September 29, 2009
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Question: What percentage of U.S. students attends schools located in rural communities?
Members of the North Carolina Rural Education Working Group put some tough questions to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan about education in rural areas…
The signature biennial report on rural education will be released later this fall. We provide a glimpse into the report…
An incisive look at some of the issues in the charter guidelines for Race to the Top funding. And an interesting alternative…
Parents and students in an isolated rural community are claiming that their constitutional rights to an adequate and equitable education are violated by long bus rides since the local school was closed…
A venerable rural education advocacy group is expanding its mission and working to claim a better future with more opportunities for all of rural Arkansas…
WUNC Reporter Dave DeWitt visits Warren County to bring listeners the latest edition of the award-winning North Carolina Voices series. The Rural Trust's Executive Director Dr. Doris Terry Williams and Policy Director Marty Strange are featured in the first segment of the series.…
The Community Foundation of the Ozarks has launched the Rural Schools Partnership, a comprehensive effort to enhance rural education through alternative resource development, collaboration, and place-based education strategies. The Rural Trust is a partner in this program…
Missouri students are not entitled to equal funding because education is not a fundamental right and the state is meeting its constitutional spending requirement for education…
Some Kansas legislators are looking at consolidation as a way to reduce spending…
Ratio of education dollars spent on instruction to dollars spent on transportation, by rural, suburban, town, and urban locales.
A number of factors explain the devastating gap in achievement between middle and upper income white students and students from historically disadvantaged backgrounds. In this report we look at one of several recent reports that examines the gap and what can be done about it…
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