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Education Week. His beat is state policy (with David J. Hoff and Joetta L. Sack), rural education, and the states of Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia.
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Alan Richard.
April 11, 2006
More than 500 schools that have signed on to use a free, federally financed school improvement program will have to pay for it after this school year if they want to continue.
April 4, 2006
Being gay as a young person in rural areas and small towns can’t be easy.
March 21, 2006
Produced by the Arlington, Va.-based Rural School and Community Trust, an advocacy group for rural schools and communities, the report says enrollment is falling in some states in the Northeast, Midwest, and Great Plains. Its identifies 20 state and local education policies that can help sustain rural schools even as enrollment drops.
