Under the government's current funding arrangements, small schools in rural areas qualify for an extra "top-up" to assist them with what is technically known as "sparsity".
The government would do better to invest in schools and teachers, especially in rural areas, rather than promise jobs to people who aren't qualified, says Anirudh Krishna, a public-policy professor at Duke University who studies poverty in India.
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Randy Weingarten of the AFT suggested a specific idea: community schools, especially in rural areas, where parents can get training after hours in the same place where their kids are learning during the day, and I think that's a terrific idea worth exploring.
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And we know these schools are often found in rural areas or in big cities like Miami.
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Some experts say many church schools are in rural or affluent areas and are well supported by parents.
For the equivalency exam field tests, the state Education Department is trying to select a representative group of schools and students, including schools in rural, urban and suburban areas, as well as students who speak Spanish as their first language.
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Roads, schools and hospitals are still rudimentary in rural areas of the province.
Modernizing at least 35, 000 public schools across the country, supporting new science labs, Internet-ready classrooms and renovations at schools across the country, in rural and urban areas.
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This year the government announced that, by the end of 2007, fees would be entirely abolished at rural schools, given rising dropout rates in poorer areas.
Give teachers in urban and rural areas where turnover is high and schools are under-funded more support.
Highland Council warned that the settlement would hit rural areas harder as staffing costs were much higher in schools outwith urban areas.
Through satellite and network systems, high-quality digital educational resources are made available to remote and underdeveloped regions in China including: training teachers in rural areas and providing information technology services and teaching resources to rural schools.
In rural areas poverty leads to a lack of the basics: food, water, primary schools, simple health care.
The government schools reaching into city and rural areas and the missionary schools had been the backbone of primary and secondary education, but in recent decades a mushrooming of private schools, especially in the urban areas, has drastically changed the scenario.
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Governments need to boost resources for rural areas, construct more schools, improve facilities, and deploy more and better trained teachers, in particular women.
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Schools across the nation are in need of a diverse set of talented teachers, especially in our big cities and rural areas, and especially in the areas of Math, Science, Technology, Special Education, and English Language Learning.
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