Educational policy needs for rural school districts.
Policy is often considered the road map that leads any organization. If an organization voluntarily or is required to adopt policies that are not best suited or designed specifically for the organization this would be like trying to take a trip in the United States when all you have is a map of Mexico. It has been said that many national and state level policies are designed for urban and suburban school districts because they have the most “clout” in the policy development process.
Which current national or state level policies are detrimental to rural school districts?
Which current national or state level policies are beneficial to rural school districts?
What type of policies should be adopted to benefit rural school districts?
March 24th, 2008 at 10:21 am
I believe that NCLB is the most detrimental to rural schools. Rural schools are similar in their size and often their economic pool. Past that, the differences run that gammut. What politicians and policy makers in government don’t realize is that for each rural school there is a unique culture. Sometimes it is ethnically based, racially based, economically based, etc. Each one is different. It is impossible to link all rural schools to the same accountability system when each is so vastly different!
March 28th, 2008 at 8:45 am
I couldn’t agree more about NCLB being the most detrimental to rural schools. You used the word “culture” in your posting and that is what policy makers often forget; rural is more than a matter of numbers.