From the ECS State Policy Database: Rural - This policy database—updated weekly—is made possible by your state's fiscal support of the Education Commission of the States....

Why Rural Matters 2011-12: The Condition of Rural Education in the 50 States - Why Rural Matters 2011-12 is the sixth in a series of biennial reports analyzing the contexts and conditions of rural education in each of the 50 states and calling attention to the need for policymakers to address rural education issues in their respective states....

Table 4: Number of Regular Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts, By Student Membership Size and State or Jurisdiction: School Year 2009-10 - Number of small districts, by state. Table from the Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Local Education Agencies From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009-10 (National Center for Education Statistics, May 2011)...

Table 3. Number of Regular Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts, by Grade Span and State of Jurisdiction: School Year 2009-10 - Table displays districts by grade span. Data from the Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Local Education Agencies From the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009-10. (National Center for Education Statistics, May 2011)...

Table 5. Percentage Distribution of Students in Membership in Regular Public Elementary and Secondary School Districts with Membership, by Student Membership Size and State - Table by percentage of student membership in small districts. Data included in the Numbers and Types of Public Elementary and Secondary Local Education Agencies from the Common Core of Data: School Year 2009-10. (National Center for Education Statistics, May 2011)...

The Rural Solution: How Community Schools Can Reinvigorate Rural Education - This report addresses the potential of the community school movement to concentrate supports and resources in low-wealth rural schools and build the kind of community-school partnerships that help children, their families, the school and the community succeed and thrive. The paper also includes profiles of three communities that have applied the concept in their schools. (Center for American Progress, September 2010)...