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Teachers and Teaching Conditions in Rural texas

... By Lorna Jimerson Almost half a million children attend schools in rural texas. Though this population is large, more than 80% of Texans live in urban and suburban areas, making it easy for rural students to be lost in educational policy discussions. This report investigates the extent to which the educational needs of rural students are being met in one crucial area of education in texas: the quality of the teaching corps and the conditions under which they teach. ...
Date: 2004-06-01

RSFN Special Series: Financing Rural Schools: Characteristics of Strong Rural School Finance Systems

...harmless measures. For example, Oregon and Vermont provide supplemental grants for rural districts. texas and Kansas use fixed student weights (extra per pupil funding) for schools below a certain enrollment. And, Colorado has a variable cost factor that recognizes the different expenses of small schools. Additional research is needed to determine the real effect of these funding mechanisms and whether they are a meaningful benefit for small and rural schools. Often the legislative history of ...
Date: 2010-08-26

Anything But Research-based: State Initiatives to Consolidate Schools and Districts

...er 2006: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, texas, and West Virginia Breaking the Mold: Policies that Support Rural Education Rural Trust's Rural School District Reorganization Standards Introduction Policymakers are giving unprecedented lip service to the importance of data-based decision-making and research-based education reforms. But many are not heeding their own admonitions and are instead exploring or actively promo...
Date: 2006-03-06

Distance Learning Technologies: Giving Small Schools Big Capabilities

...nce "virtual field trips." An increasing number of sites-from the Johnson Space Center in texas, to the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey to the Museum of Radio and TV in Los Angeles allow students the thrill of real-time interaction with people, places, animals, works of art, historical documents, etc. across the nation and around the world. Virtual field trips allow students, no matter their location, the opportunity to see, experience, and talk with the world beyond their local c...
Date: 2003-01-01

Fact and Figures About English Language Learners and Rural Students

...What are the nine states?   Answer: New Mexico (33.8%), California (26.7%), Arizona (24.3%), texas (19.0%), Nevada (17.0%), Alaska (15.1%), Florida (14.0%), Washington (12.5%), Colorado (11.1%). Read more from the January 2010 Rural Policy Matters....
Date: 2010-01-28

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

... New Mexico (81.6%), Alaska (56.2%), California (50.3%), Louisiana (43.9%); South Carolina (42.9%), 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 the Largest Number of Rural Students

...Carolina enrolls more students in rural districts than any other state. Following North Carolina is texas with 560,380 students in rural districts. Georgia (525,500), Ohio (449,700), and Virginia (376,900) round out the top five states for total number of students enrolled in rural districts. (Why Rural Matters, 2009) Read more from the February 2010 Rural Policy Matters. ...
Date: 2010-02-25

Groups Address School Pushout Crisis

...re information is available at www.pbis.org. Information about the program’s effectiveness in texas and how to use stimulus funding to implement PBIS is available here.   Limit court referrals to criminal behavior and circumstances in which students are endangered.   Implement whole school approaches that focus on creating hospitable and fair learning and social environments. Involve students and communities in creating and implementing disciplinary policies.   End zer...
Date: 2009-08-24

High-Poverty Rural, Small Town Districts Concentrated in Distinct Regions

...erty schools share the Piney Woods region where southwestern Arkansas, northwestern Louisiana, East texas, and southeast Oklahoma meet. Another hugs the border with Mexico, all the way from the southern-most tip of texas to California’s Imperial Valley.   There is a distinct constellation of high-poverty rural districts in the Southern Plains, running from central texas across the southwest corner of Oklahoma and into eastern New Mexico and Colorado.   Among the most pronounc...
Date: 2009-08-24

Home Ownership is a Wonderful Thing: Teachers Share Their Experiences with the Arkansas Teacher Housing Assistance Program

... different for Donald Shirley. He was living in Louisiana and teaching in a neighboring district in texas when the eyewall of Hurricane Rita made a direct hit on his town. "The following Monday I had a substitute position in Arkansas, out of the hurricane's path," he says. Although he later took a regular teaching job, things were not easy for his family. "Gas prices went up and we needed to get closer to school." He ran across an internet link to the ATHDF's website and lear...
Date: 2008-11-06

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

...a, 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

Improving the Disciplinary Climate: More Options for Communities

.... Read more: Southern Poverty Law Center's Schoolhouse to Jailhouse project page. texas Appleseed, a legal advocacy center, released a report on the pipeline in their state that also provides a useful overview of the issues and an example of statistics that can be used to clearly illustrate the problems. The Education Law Center has challenged zero tolerance policies in court and in policy arenas, and produced important legal research on how to challenge these laws. T...
Date: 2009-01-02

Join the Formula Fairness Campaign

...t Save Alabama’s Small Schools South Carolina Rural Education Grassroots Group texas Rural Education Association Organizations wanting to sign up as co-sponsors of the campaign contact marty.strange@comcast.net. To receive a free monthly electronic newsletter on rural education policy issues, sign up for Rural Policy Matters here: http://www.ruraledu.org/getprm.html....
Date: 2010-03-20

NCLB Lawsuit Remains Dismissed

... School Dist. of the City of Pontiac v. Spellings was brought by plaintiff districts from Michigan, texas, and Vermont, and included Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union in rural Vermont. Those plaintiffs, along with ten NEA affiliate organizations, claimed that the federal education law clearly stated that it does not require states to incur any costs for the Act not paid for by the federal government. The plaintiffs claimed that federal funding shortfalls left states and districts responsible f...
Date: 2010-06-25

Obama and the Rural Vote

... states like Oklahoma (32%), Alabama (21%), Arkansas (20%), Mississippi (14%), West Virginia (13%), texas (11%), South Dakota (10%), and South Carolina (9%). These are all states with significant rural populations and by almost any measure the rural vote went heavily for McCain. But smattered across these red states are unmistakable clusters of blue counties, nearly all of them places of high poverty and high percentages of people of color. They are characteristic rural regions, lik...
Date: 2008-12-03