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Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label school. Show all posts
Friday, September 19, 2025

What's for lunch? This year's school lunches include restrictions that challenge cafeterias and budgets

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'Woodles' are a versatile school lunch favorite. Estimates on how many rural children rely on school lunches for at least one nutrit...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Eye-popping college costs vs. what students actually pay; research report looks at higher education comparisons

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Brookings graph, from Department of Education data Younger generations may be bypassing college due to its eye-popping costs, but research s...
Monday, October 02, 2023

Opinion: Appointed county school board grants itself 'sole authority' over library content; some residents push back

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A sign on a road in Hanover County, where a battle is underway over a push for an elected school board. (Photo by Greg Sargent, Washington ...
Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Misbehaving teachers move from district to district and state to state with relatively little scrutiny

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Teachers who have committed sexual misconduct are able to move from district to district and state to state without close checking by school...
Tuesday, June 01, 2021

Stories for S.C. accountability journalism project uncover corruption, misspending in local governments

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Two rural South Carolina dailies have exposed questionable local tax expenditures; the stories are the latest products of an investigative r...
Monday, November 30, 2020

States can improve rural broadband disparity by fixing FCC maps like Georgia did, says report from governors' group

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"States can begin to address inequitable access to broadband by improving coverage maps that detail where connections aren't availa...
Monday, November 23, 2020

Biden can reduce rural-urban political polarization by modernizing federal rural policy, researchers write

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One reason rural Americans have become more conservative is that they feel left behind by federal economic policy, according to a recent thi...
Thursday, October 08, 2020

New report has detailed stats on how pandemic has affected rural households' finances, jobs, schooling and health care

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"Even before the pandemic, the health-care systems that serve rural Americans were in decline; rural hospitals were closing their doors...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Rural schools struggle with lack of broadband

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Rural school districts are more likely to hold in-person classes during the pandemic, but many that choose distance learning are having a ro...
Tuesday, April 07, 2020

ProPublica and Chicago Tribune data analysis illustrates the 'homework gap' in rural Illinois

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With schools nationwide shut down during the pandemic, many students struggle with distance learning because of lack of broadband at home or...
Thursday, March 05, 2020

New study links poor internet connections with lower grades and SAT scores for students in rural Michigan

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A slow internet connection or limited access from home can put rural students behind academically, according to a newly published study fr...
Tuesday, November 05, 2019

Study: Rural college enrollment and graduation still lags

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The gap in college enrollment and degree completion has narrowed between rural and non-rural students since the 1990s, but a new study fou...
Monday, December 17, 2018

Rural school principals have some of the hardest jobs, and some of the highest turnover rates, in education

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"Rural school leaders have some of the most complex, multifaceted jobs in education. They also have some of the highest turnover. Half...
Tuesday, October 02, 2018

Rural schools are less likely to participate in program that gives free lunch to all children in poverty-area schools

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U.S. Department of Agriculture chart Though rural families are more likely to be poor, rural schools are less likely to participate in ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Canned and frozen food industries try to unseat fresh produce in school lunch program for the poor

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The federal government spends more than $16 billion each year on school meals, and lobbyists for competing food industries want a piece of ...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Teachers share experiences teaching about climate

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Teaching about climate change can be difficult in rural areas where the topic is highly politicized. Amy Harmon of The New York Times publ...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Southwest Va. is the latest rural region to hear talk of secession from its state; 'a thought experiment'

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The collapse of Central Appalachia's coal industry, and the state of Virginia's response to resulting problems with school funding,...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Election results lead colleges to put more focus on reaching 'hard-to-get-to' rural students

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John Dunn of Rose Hill, N.C., is the first in his family to finish high school. He is a freshman at North Carolina State University. (N...
Tuesday, October 04, 2016

Low salaries for beginning educators exacerbate rural teacher shortages in states like Montana

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Teacher shortages in some rural areas can be directly attributed to low salaries. Montana, one of the nation's largest states in area, ...
Friday, July 29, 2016

High transportation costs lead very rural Nevada school district to adopt four-day week

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Three rural schools in rural Elko County, Nevada are the latest to switch to four-day weeks "to allow students in those areas more t...