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Question: Which 10 states spend more than $7,000 on instruction per rural student?
School violence reports analyzed by number of incidents and locale of school.
Voters decided education-related ballot initiatives in many states this month, some with potentially far-reaching results.
Voters in the Buckeye State approved many local district requests for funding, but calls are growing louder for a school finance system overall.
Voters overwhelmingly approved a ballot initiative that would expand charter operations in Georgia. But some opponents are challenging it in court, arguing that the language of the initiative was misleading.
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November 27, 2012
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Question: Which 13 states spend less than $5,000 on instruction per rural student?
Next month's elections will steer a course in many states with education initiatives on the statewide ballot.
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October 29, 2012
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The Rural School and Community Trust was among the "friends of the court" who filed briefs urging the Colorado Supreme Court to uphold a December 2011 ruling that found the state's school finance formula unconstitutional.
Plaintiffs in a new lawsuit say fees violate the state constitution provision that guarantees "free, common schools" to students. The suit invokes a long-dormant school funding case in the state.
The combined cases involve six different sets of plaintiffs, representing three-quarters of the five million students in the Lone Star State.
Keystone state legislators struggle with reforming charter school regulations in the wake of lawsuits over funding.
The state superintendent of education must respond to allegations from a rural district that it cannot afford to comply with a new state voucher law and desegregation orders.
Governor Brown's veto revives questions about how well loose oversight serves poor students in charter schools.
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