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President Obama’s proposed fiscal year 2014 budget highlights key education investments in early learning, furthering the K-12 reform agenda, college affordability and quality, school safety and expanded opportunities for both middle- and low-income communities, while protecting formula programs for at-risk populations overall.
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April 10, 2013
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The National Assembly on School-Based Health Care (NASBHC) will bring together hundreds of providers, administrators, educators, and advocates for their upcoming convention to be held June 23 -26, 2013 in Washington DC.
Date:
March 20, 2013
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Because most districts have already received their federal funding for the current school year, any impact from the federal sequester would affect the next school year. However, for those school districts which receive
Impact Aid funding, the effects may be more immediate.
US Department of Agriculture Farm to School grants help eligible schools improve the health and well-being of their students and connect schools with local farmers, ranchers and food businesses. This grant program provides new economic opportunities to food producers and bring healthy, local offerings into school cafeterias. Proposals are due at
midnight EST, April 24, 2013.
The
National Children’s Book and Literacy Alliance invites teachers and all other adults who live and work with young people to enter the
Our White House Book Giveaway. Submissions are due 11:00 PM EST Friday,
March 1, 2013.
SCORE, the Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education, will convene education leaders from Tennessee and around the country to discuss special issues of implementing the Standards in rural communities.
Rural school districts will be able to continue to provide transportation this year and next, but schools will still have to reduce their budgets immediately; a lawsuit contends that schools are continuing to charge illegal fees to students to cover budget needs.
Olympic State school funding plaintiffs have won a major victory that confirms that the state’s responsibility to fund schools is not offset by fiscal crisis.
Rural and remote schools in the state will share $18 million for programming as the state continues to hone intervention activities mandated by the ruling in
Moore v. Alaska.
Implementation of a new funding formula in Colorado will likely be delayed by appeals by that state’s governor and State Board of Education.
Why Rural Matters 2011–12 is the sixth 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.
Date:
January 10, 2012
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Nearly one in four American children attend rural schools and enrollment is growing at a faster rate in rural school districts than in all other places combined, according to
Why Rural Matters 2011–12, a biennial report by the Rural School and Community Trust.
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January 10, 2012
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Read about the 2010 Rural School and Community Trust / Fund for Teachers grant recipients, and browse the curriculum they developed with their funds.
Date:
October 26, 2010
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Read about the 2009 Rural School and Community Trust / Fund for Teachers grant recipients, and browse the curriculum they developed with their funds.
Date:
November 05, 2009
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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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October 30, 2009
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