Thursday, November 10, 2005
Rural Education in the News...
From my Google News Alert service this week...
Assemblyman Cogdill Announces Rural Education Summit
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills, CA, USA By California Political Desk. (Sacramento)
(Sacramento) Assemblyman Dave Cogdill (R-Modesto) announced today the 5th Bi-Annual Rural Education Summit will be held on November 17th and 18th in Fish Camp, California, near Yosemite. The Summit will highlight and examine the pressing needs of rural schools within current state and federal education policy.
Querys named Grand Marshals for Flippin parade
Baxter Bulletin - Baxter, AR, USA
Dale and Kay Query have been selected as grand marshals for the fifth annual Holi-Dazzle Seasonal Parade on Nov. 19. The parade kicks off at 4:30 p.m. in downtown Flippin. The Querys will lead the parade, sponsored by the Flippin Pride Team. Query is superintendent of Flippin schools. Kay, Dale's wife of 35 years, is the county administrator for the Marion County Department of Health and Human Services in Yellville.
Forum focuses on rural needs
Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln, NE, USA
Sixty-five million Americans live in places with populations of 50,000 or less. But the closest thing to a federal budget for rural citizens is the$3 billion slice that rural development currently gets from the approximately $190 billion allocated to the farm bill.That’s a problem that needs fixing if rural areas are to survive, Richard Foster told a studio and television audience connected by satellite and the Nebraska ETV Network at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Wednesday night.
China to extend compulsory education
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai, China
CHINA plans to extend its nine years of compulsory education to cover more than 98 percent of the population and to wipe out illiteracy in all people between 15 and 24 years old by 2010, the Ministry of Education announced in a statement today. By the end of 2004, the country had extended compulsory education to cover 93.6 percent of the population, the report said.
Workforce Education Affects Economic Growth
AXcess News - Carson City, NV, USA
Higher educational levels contribute to local economic development in several ways. First, a well-educated workforce facilitates the adoption of new ways of producing goods or providing services among local businesses. Second, prospective employers may view a well-educated local labor force as an asset when choosing among alternative locations for new establishments. Both factors could help improve a community's chances of attracting new businesses, particularly those businesses that require highly skilled employees. Finally, higher educational levels are almost always tied to geographic clusters of certain key industries, which in some cases have generated major economic growth in rural areas.
Bring on the education tax relief: coalition
CBC Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan, Canada
With Saskatchewan oil and gas revenues swelling provincial coffers, a coalition of local governments and other groups is calling on the province to increase spending on education and ease the local property-tax burden. Leaders from school boards, municipalities and the real estate sector say local ratepayers are shouldering too much of the tax burden when it comes to education taxes.
Tags: aera, rural, education
Assemblyman Cogdill Announces Rural Education Summit
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills, CA, USA By California Political Desk. (Sacramento)
(Sacramento) Assemblyman Dave Cogdill (R-Modesto) announced today the 5th Bi-Annual Rural Education Summit will be held on November 17th and 18th in Fish Camp, California, near Yosemite. The Summit will highlight and examine the pressing needs of rural schools within current state and federal education policy.
Querys named Grand Marshals for Flippin parade
Baxter Bulletin - Baxter, AR, USA
Dale and Kay Query have been selected as grand marshals for the fifth annual Holi-Dazzle Seasonal Parade on Nov. 19. The parade kicks off at 4:30 p.m. in downtown Flippin. The Querys will lead the parade, sponsored by the Flippin Pride Team. Query is superintendent of Flippin schools. Kay, Dale's wife of 35 years, is the county administrator for the Marion County Department of Health and Human Services in Yellville.
Forum focuses on rural needs
Lincoln Journal Star - Lincoln, NE, USA
Sixty-five million Americans live in places with populations of 50,000 or less. But the closest thing to a federal budget for rural citizens is the$3 billion slice that rural development currently gets from the approximately $190 billion allocated to the farm bill.That’s a problem that needs fixing if rural areas are to survive, Richard Foster told a studio and television audience connected by satellite and the Nebraska ETV Network at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Wednesday night.
China to extend compulsory education
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai, China
CHINA plans to extend its nine years of compulsory education to cover more than 98 percent of the population and to wipe out illiteracy in all people between 15 and 24 years old by 2010, the Ministry of Education announced in a statement today. By the end of 2004, the country had extended compulsory education to cover 93.6 percent of the population, the report said.
Workforce Education Affects Economic Growth
AXcess News - Carson City, NV, USA
Higher educational levels contribute to local economic development in several ways. First, a well-educated workforce facilitates the adoption of new ways of producing goods or providing services among local businesses. Second, prospective employers may view a well-educated local labor force as an asset when choosing among alternative locations for new establishments. Both factors could help improve a community's chances of attracting new businesses, particularly those businesses that require highly skilled employees. Finally, higher educational levels are almost always tied to geographic clusters of certain key industries, which in some cases have generated major economic growth in rural areas.
Bring on the education tax relief: coalition
CBC Saskatchewan - Saskatchewan, Canada
With Saskatchewan oil and gas revenues swelling provincial coffers, a coalition of local governments and other groups is calling on the province to increase spending on education and ease the local property-tax burden. Leaders from school boards, municipalities and the real estate sector say local ratepayers are shouldering too much of the tax burden when it comes to education taxes.
Tags: aera, rural, education
