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missouri Arguments Heard

...free and current at time of posting, but may require registration or expire over time.   The missouri Supreme Court heard arguments earlier this month in the Committee for Excellence in Education school funding lawsuit. Plaintiff school districts are appealing a 2007 decision upholding the state finance system. That ruling stated that there is no guarantee of equity or adequacy of funding in missouri laws.   The missouri State Constitution requires that 25% of state spending go to ...
Date: 2009-05-27

missouri Court Says Education Not a Fundamental Right

...rent at time of posting, but may require registration or expire over time.   This month, the missouri Supreme Court ended a four-year-long school finance lawsuit, Committee for Educational Equity (CEE) v. State, by ruling that education is not a fundamental right for students in the state and that students across the state are not entitled to equal funding. In the decision, the state was found to be meeting its responsibility because it spent at least 25% of state revenues on education, a...
Date: 2009-09-29

missouri Expands Concealed Carry in Schools

... free and current at time of posting, but may require registration or expire over time. This month missouri lawmakers expanded the ability of school employees to bring guns to school. School boards already had the power to authorize employees with concealed weapons permits to carry weapons at school. Under the new law, school districts could designate employees as school protection officers. The district would be required to hold a public hearing beforehand. The law also establishes training pr...
Date: 2014-09-24

missouri Formula Fight Likely to Produce Mostly Losers, Few Winners

...ar because of the ongoing implementation of a new funding formula set to be fully funded next year. missouri districts were supposed to receive an additional $800 million in school aid, phased in over seven years. The foundation formula, adopted in 2005, was meant to address differences in the ability of districts to raise school funds and reduce reliance on local property wealth. Districts that were typically able to raise significant local taxpayer dollars for schools were put into a "ho...
Date: 2012-04-28

missouri Plan Prorates Funding Shortfall Among Districts

...tration or expire over time. Recession-related funding shortfalls are having a major impact on the missouri’s poorest school districts. After the state legislature refused to act to address a shortfall in education funding, the State Department of Educationstepped up with a plan that will prorate funding cuts to districts. The plan cuts state funding to most districts and minimizes major shifts in state funding among districts. Under the plan, poorer districts will not receive the funding...
Date: 2012-07-27

missouri's Ozarks Schools Suffer Funding Disparity

...Rural School and Community Trust, reveals a significant funding disparity for public schools in the missouri Ozarks, the poorest rural region of the state. It's not surprising. The Ozarks are the largest mountainous region between Appalachia and the Rockies. Spanning most of southern missouri and northern Arkansas, the Ozarks are home to the extravagant country music entertainment center at Branson, missouri and popular recreation venues like missouri's Lake of the Ozarks and Arkansas's Buffalo...
Date: 2008-10-10

Partnerships Spur Library, National Park, and Preschool — Worth County, missouri

...een lost during construction of the track. Background Worth County in northwest missouri is a small agricultural county-just 267 square miles and 2,300 residents. Like many other rural counties, it has struggled with the loss of overall population and declining enrollment in its schools. The population is 99% white; household and per capita income is 66% of the national average. About 14% of the population has incomes below the federal poverty level. Worth County Elementary a...
Date: 2006-04-01

Rural Trust Joins in Friend of the Court Brief in missouri Lawsuit

...of posting, but may require registration or expire over time.   The Rural Trust, along with missouri School Boards Association, Education Justice at the Education Law Center and the National School Board Association have filed a friend of the court brief in the missouri Supreme Court earlier this year. The brief supports the plaintiffs in Committee for Educational Equality v. State, the school finance lawsuit brought in 2004. In August 2007, the trial judge dismissed the plaintiff’...
Date: 2009-05-05

2010 Rural School and Community Trust / Fund For Teachers Grant Recipients

...;Curriculum: Developing an Emerging Authors K–12 Creative Writing Curriculum     missouri   Gainesville Elementary School, Gainesville Librarian Rebecca Grisham visited the homes of Laura Ingalls Wilder in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota to enhance and inspire students' personal connection with reading. Resources  Presentation: Laura Ingalls Wilder: Inspiring Students to Make a Personal Connection With Reading  Curriculum: Laura Ingalls Wild...
Date: 2010-10-26

2013 Global Teacher Fellows Share Experiences

...yond their usual comfort zones—and gain an understanding of how the ecosystems in their rural missouri farming town connect to those on the other side of the world. The 32 rural teachers who traveled the globe as 2013 Global Teacher Fellows each had their own reasons for making a journey to another part of the world. But they all came back with renewed enthusiasm, fresh perspective, an expanded appreciation for their own place, and deeper faith in the capabilities of their students to mak...
Date: 2013-10-29

A Life-Changing Experience: Global Fellows Travelogue, Part 2

... immigration station in New York in 1892. Jennie Young traveled to Bangkok, Thailand, from Mendon, missouri, where she teaches at Northwestern R-I Elementary School. As a volunteer with Cross Cultural Solutions, a program that coordinates volunteers in twelve countries, she worked with teachers and students. Young writes, “It was easy to embrace the culture which is based on the word "Sanuk," meaning fun!” Young also had opportunities to participate in lectures and di...
Date: 2012-08-27

Community Initiative Supporting Rural Arts Education in the Ozarks

...s funds an artist-in-residence to bring interdisciplinary art projects to rural school districts in missouri. Kate Baird, a former teaching artist at the Guggenheim Museum, the Kentler International Drawing Space, and the Rubin Museum of Art in New York, visits the classrooms free of charge. She brings lesson plans, ideas, and materials for original projects that schools otherwise would not have. As school districts face funding cuts, the arts are typically the first to be sacrificed, despite ...
Date: 2012-04-28

Distance Learning Technologies: Giving Small Schools Big Capabilities

...llment rates by size of school district. Nebraska Alliance for Rural Education. GreaterNET & missouri Distance Learning Association (MoDLA). (September 2002). Recommended Standards, Guidelines, and Resources for K-12 Two-Way Interactive Television Networks. Available at http://www.modla.org Hobbs, V. & Christianson, J.S. (1997). Virtual Classrooms: Education Opportunity through Two-Way Interactive Television. Technomic Publishing Company, Lancaster Pennsylvania. Howley, C. B. &a...
Date: 2003-01-01

Education Official Visits Rural Schools Partnership Conference

...ks Teacher Corps includes 18 students from Drury University, Ozarks Technical Community College and missouri State University’s campuses in Springfield and West Plains, who will receive annual $4,000 scholarships in return for a commitment to spend at least three years teaching in a rural school after graduation. This program is made possible by the Chesley and Flora Lea Wallis Scholarship Fund, a $1.7 million Community Foundation of the Ozarks’ charitable fund. White said he came t...
Date: 2010-05-09

Facts and Figures About Instructional Expenditures for Rural Students

...), Tennessee ($4,132), Mississippi ($4,168), Florida ($4,186), Alabama ($4,358), Illinois ($4,371), missouri ($4,434), and Colorado ($4,442). Kentucky escapes the under $4,500 crowd with $4,502 in instructional expenses per rural student. (Why Rural Matters, 2009.) Read more from the December 2010 Rural Policy Matters....
Date: 2010-12-21