Throughout the years, the Rural Trust has fostered grassroots efforts to promote and sustain state and local policies that support rural schools. What policies are best for rural schools?  What are community activists doing in rural areas to promote, preserve, and improve the policies affecting their schools?  We partner with a national network of community groups working at the state level to improve policy for rural schools, and emphasize training leaders who understand the methods and values of well-connected schools and communities and of place-based learning as a means to accomplish these connections.