STANFORD, Ill. — Anyone who manages a household can appreciate what it must cost for a school to keep its doors open, let alone educate the students inside its walls.
Rural schools tackle biggest costs with creative solutions
Olympia School District in central Illinois is investigating the use of propane instead of diesel to power buses.
WOLF LAKE, Ill. — The Shawnee school district is doing well, considering its tiny enrollment, large area and low population, surrounded by vas…
WEST UNION, Iowa — On July 1, five years after North Fayette and Valley started whole-grade sharing, the two school districts combined to beco…
More than 25 percent of the public schools in America are rural, with one in six students from rural areas.
To those who don’t teach and aren’t on a school board, the way education is financed can seem a bit like reading a foreign language.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — Timothy Gilson, head of Educational Leadership and Postsecondary Education at the University of Northern Iowa, has studied…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — David Tramel, coordinator of school financial and administrative services for Missouri’s Department of Elementary and Se…
Illinois legislators responded last year to longtime calls for a more equitable school funding formula by passing a landmark bill. Gov. Bruce …
MEMPHIS, Mo. — Ryan Bergeson has spent 15 years working in education in northeast Missouri, including 12 at Scotland County Schools, where he …
PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa — It’s homecoming week in Pleasantville, a small town southeast of Des Moines. The students are dressed up. Toilet paper h…
PECATONICA, Ill. — While rural schools face many challenges, it’s easy to find success stories.
FARRAGUT, Iowa — Harold Dinsmore walks the halls of the school building he called home for nearly 60 years.
NORBORNE, Mo. — It’s 11 flat miles on Highway 10 between Norborne and Hardin, past corn and soybeans and tractors, fields sprawling out in the…
