Search Result for: Wyoming


wyoming Attracts Montana Teachers

...This article appeared in the October 2008 Rural Policy Matters More than 400 Montana teachers have moved in recent years to wyoming to teach, according to a report in Montana’s Great Falls Tribune. The reason is basic: money. wyoming has boosted funding for K-12 education dramatically, and now spends nearly three times as much per pupil as Montana. A federal mineral tax on coal mining, which dedicates over one-third of the revenue to wyoming schools, is a major reason. About three-fourths...
Date: 2008-10-10

wyoming Backs Off Local Control

...nks are free and current at time of posting, but may require registration or expire over time. The wyoming legislative session has ended with Governor Matt Mead signing into law several key pieces of education legislation, including the five-year school finance recalibration required by the Campbell school funding court decision. A significant change this year requires districts to limit class sizes in grades K–3 to 16 students. This requirement represents a move away from the block grant...
Date: 2011-03-30

wyoming Debates Funding Accountability

...Links are free and current at time of posting, but may require registration or expire over time. wyoming’s school finance process is unique in that it requires the state to recalibrate the funding model every five years. (See the June RSFN at www.ruraledu.org/articles.php?id=2507) To this end, the wyoming Select Committee on School Finance has been meeting since the spring to evaluate the current model’s accuracy in measuring the cost of a quality education and its fairness i...
Date: 2010-08-26

wyoming Legislation Could Add Strings to Funding

...s are free and current at time of posting, but may require registration or expire over time. The wyoming legislature is considering changing its funding and accountability provisions. Two separate bills are under consideration. The proposed Education Accountability Act, would move ultimate accountability for education results away from local districts and to the state, and it would impose financial and other restrictions on districts whose students do not meet specified scores on standardize...
Date: 2011-01-25

wyoming Recalibrating its Funding Formula

...: Links are free and current at time of posting, but may require registration or expire over time. wyoming’s school funding formula is undergoing recalibration, which is required every five years to review the current system and make needed adjustments. Lawmakers began meeting last month to hear from experts and practitioners about how schools are faring. wyoming’s finance system is notable in that it provides many of the most-needed supports for small, rural schools in the state, ...
Date: 2010-06-25

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

...ach district affected. If passed by the legislature, the amendment would go to statewide vote. wyoming. wyoming has a finance formula that recognizes the strengths and values of small schools and provides funding to protect those strengths. There are occasions when consolidation is necessary and advisable. The Rural Trust has formulated the following standards to guide state accountability in reorganization actions. Rural Trust's Rural School District Reorganization Standards Sta...
Date: 2006-03-06

California's Frontal Assault on Rural Schools

...und only a portion of the cost of transportation, although a few pay the whole fare. New Mexico and wyoming theoretically pay 100 percent of the local district cost, and South Carolina basically operates the school transportation system as a state service. The California attack on school transportation funding is an attack on all schools, but especially on rural schools. It raises serious questions about the constitutionality of the school funding system. There are currently at least three chal...
Date: 2012-01-27

Do Court Cases Matter?

...ntentions and Harm Our Children, Hanushek and Linseth looked at cases in Kentucky, New Jersey, wyoming, and Massachusetts, and concluded that, except for Massachusetts, the rulings in the cases did not improve student performance Baker and Welner were inspired to revisit these four finance lawsuits after the book was cited in a U.S. Supreme Court opinion for its proposition that increased funding, and specifically judicially-ordered funding, do not improve student achievement. The o...
Date: 2010-10-27

Fact and Figures About States With the Highest Mobility Rates Among Rural Households

...ida (17.7%), Alaska (17.4%), Colorado (17.1%), Utah (16.1%), California (16.0%), Texas (16.0%), and wyoming (15.1%). High student mobility is often an indicator of family stress, income instability, and homelessness. *U.S. Census Bureau, 2007 American Community Survey. Why Rural Matters, 2009. Read more from the September 2010 Rural Policy Matters....
Date: 2010-09-28

Facts and Figures About Elected Chief State School Officers

...Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Washington, Wisconsin, and wyoming. Read more from the December 2008 Rural Policy Matters....
Date: 2008-12-03

Facts and Figures About States That Have More Than Half Their Schools in Rural Communities

...na (74.9%); North Dakota (72.1%); Vermont (71.3%); Maine (67.4%); Alaska (65.5%); Nebraska (59.6%); wyoming (57.0%); Arkansas (54.2%); Iowa (54.2%); Oklahoma (52.5%); New Hampshire (51.9%); Alabama (51.6%); and West Virginia (51.4%).   (Source: Why Rural Matters, 2009, based on data from the U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, Public School Universe, 2006–07.) Read more from the July 2010 Rural Policy Matters....
Date: 2010-07-23

Facts and Figures about States With Most Schools in Rural Places

...na (75.1%), Vermont (73.7%), North Dakota (72.4%), Maine (66.8%), Alaska (63.3%), Nebraska (56.3%), wyoming (56.1%), Arkansas (55.2%), Oklahoma (53.9%), West Virginia (53.4%), Iowa (53.2%), Mississippi (51.2%), New Hampshire (51.0%), and North Carolina (50.2%). In addition, more than 49% of schools are located in rural areas in Kentucky (49.8%), Kansas (49.8%), and Alabama (49.1%). Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, Public School...
Date: 2012-06-25

Montana Cites Rural Nature in Rationale for Declining NCLB Waivers

...ude 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 U.S. Department of Education: http://opi.mt.gov/PDF/Supt/De...
Date: 2011-12-30

Ohio Funding Reform Faces Opposition

...ble to an amount that research indicates will actually work in the classroom.   Arkansas and wyoming also use an evidence-based approach to funding schools. Finance experts Allen Odden and Larry Picus, who helped craft the Ohio plan, cite improved educational outcomes in those two states.   Under the plan, Ohio’s state share of funding would increase to 61% after the phase-in. Greater equity among districts tends to occur when the state’s share of school funding increas...
Date: 2009-05-27

Rural Child Poverty Rates Often Higher than Urban

...ison. The rural child poverty rates are about double the central city rates in Alaska, Vermont, and wyoming, more than twenty percent higher in Arizona, Hawaii, Kentucky, Montana, New Mexico, and South Dakota, and more than 10 percent higher in North Carolina, North Dakota, and Oregon. The overall rural child poverty rates exceed 30% percent in Mississippi (35.1), Louisiana (33.9) and Arizona (31.1). Read more from the October 2008 Rural Policy Matters....
Date: 2008-10-10