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delaware Raises Minimum Reporting Age

...ree and current at time of posting, but may require registration or expire over time. The state of delaware has made a small but important change in its school crime reporting requirements. Previously, the law required schools to notify law enforcement upon certain actions by all students 9 years-old and older. School officials, and in some cases, law enforcement officers and courts had no discretion in how to handle these offenses, regardless of the circumstances. The new law moves the mandat...
Date: 2010-07-23

Facts and Figures About Education Funding for Rural Districts: States With Least Inequality

... school funding among rural districts?   Answer: Kentucky, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, and delaware have the least inequality in combined state and local revenue per pupil among rural districts. These five states have relatively equal levels of instructional spending across rural districts. However, rural instructional spending is very low in Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Only delaware spends above the national average, and it has low numbers and low percentages of rura...
Date: 2009-07-18

Facts and Figures About States With Funding Parity in Rural School Districts

...rural schools most likely to have about the same amount of funding as other rural schools? Answer: delaware, Arizona, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Alabama, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and Maryland. It is important to note that many of these states have some of the most poorly funded rural schools in the nation. The fact that there’s not a lot of variation among districts is often because nearly all rural schools lack adequate resources. For more information about “equ...
Date: 2011-02-24

Facts and Figures About States With High Percentages of Minority Students in Rural Schools

...9%), Texas (41.4%), Mississippi (40.0%), Oklahoma (36.7%), North Carolina (36.0%), Florida (34.9%), delaware (33.9%), Georgia (31.2%), Colorado (29.8%), Nevada (29.6%), Alabama (27.0%), Virginia (24.3%), and Washington (23.4%). Read more from the March 2010 Rural Policy Matters....
Date: 2010-03-26

Facts and Figures About States With Low Rural Graduation Rates

...5.9% rural graduation rate); Georgia (56.2%); New Mexico (58.4%); Arizona (59.7%); Alabama (62.4%): delaware (62.6%); Mississippi (63.4%); Florida (64.1%); Louisiana (64.9%); and North Carolina (66.5%); (Source: Why Rural Matters, 2009) Read more from the September 2011 Rural Policy Matters....
Date: 2011-09-27

Facts and Figures About States With Lowest State Funding for Rural Schools

...ucation budget on rural schools, followed by Rhode Island (4.4%), California (5.1%), Nevada (5.1%), delaware (5.6%), and Utah (6.5%). It should be noted, however, that California actually has a large rural population, but the rural population is a small percentage of the state’s total number of residents. Nevada and Utah have vast areas with very low population densities, but most of their residents are concentrated in a few urban areas. Data Source: National Center for Education Statis...
Date: 2011-11-28

Facts and Figures: States With Higher Percentages of Minority Rural Students

...issippi (40.6%), South Carolina (40.5%), North Carolina (40.5%), Oklahoma (37.6%), Georgia (36.9%), delaware (36.1%), Colorado (30.0), Nevada (29.9%), Washington (29.0), Alabama (28.1%), and Virginia (26.5%). (Why Rural Matters, 2011–12. Data source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, Public School Universe, 2008–09.) Read more from the September 2012 Rural Policy Matters....
Date: 2012-09-25

High-Poverty Rural Districts Largely Left Out of Race to the Top

...ina, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington, D.C. Together they will receive $3.4 billion. Tennessee and delaware, first round winners announced in March, won an additional $600 million between them. In general, the winners aren’t very rural and the rural areas within them are not particularly poor. Exceptions are Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Hawaii is difficult to measure because the entire state in a single schools district encompassing both rural and urban areas. No need to menti...
Date: 2010-09-28

Improving Adolescent Reading Will Take More Than Top-Down Technocratic Solutions

...lications/2009/09E01_Critical_Mission_Reading_.pdf.   1The states are Alabama, Arkansas, delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. Read more from the April 2009 Rural Policy Matters....
Date: 2009-05-05

Montana Cites Rural Nature in Rationale for Declining NCLB Waivers

...ates have not indicated they will apply for NCLB waivers. They include Alabama, Alaska, California, delaware, Louisiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyoming in addition to Montana. Read more: Local news coverage: http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/montana-schools-won-t-seek-waiver-from-no-child-left/article_19d46016-2147-11e1-8b14-0019bb2963f4.html www.kxlh.com/news/montana-won-t-seek-waiver-from-federal-education-rules/ Montana’s letter to the...
Date: 2011-12-30

Reducing Exclusionary Discipline in Schools

...nt articles that summarize actions in other states to end zero-tolerance, including North Carolina, delaware, and Indiana: www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/more-schools-are-rethinking-zero-tolerance/2011/05/26/AGSIKmGH_story.html www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-boyle/when-we-ban-kids-from-sch_b_863177.html Read more from the June 2011 Rural Policy Matters....
Date: 2011-06-25

Rural Policy Matters: July 2010

... to protect students’ right to an education and to ensure that they remain in school… delaware Raises Minimum Reporting Age delaware requires schools to report to law enforcement certain student behaviors. But a new law gives schools more reporting leeway for children nine to eleven years old… Connecticut Reduces Suspension Rate Publicity along with a new law limiting when students can be put out of school is credited with reducing the state's high suspension rate…...
Date: 2010-07-24

School Discipline: An Occasional Series on Developments in School Disciplinary Policies and Practices

...ated Articles Connecticut Reduces Suspension Rate delaware Raises Minimum Reporting Age Georgia Restricts Disciplinary Restraints In recent years, many schools have increased the use of harsh discipline practices, including suspending and expelling students — often for minor offences. Some of this practice is the result of laws that force schools to implement specific punishme...
Date: 2010-07-24

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Date: 2009-06-26
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Studies Continue to Show Disparate Discipline

...nts are less than 50%. These states are New Mexico, Louisiana, Indiana, Georgia, Illinois, Florida, delaware, South Carolina, Ohio, Nebraska, Iowa, the District of Columbia, and New York. “States of Emergency” for Latino males are Georgia, delaware, Mississippi, the District of Columbia, South Carolina, and New York. “We have a responsibility to provide future generations of Americans with the education and the skills needed to thrive in communities, the job market and th...
Date: 2012-09-26