Rural schools serve approximately 11 million students (or one quarter of all students in US public schools) and often find it difficult to build networks to support their work, share best practices and successes, and to just lend a friendly ear.

 

Facilities challenges are often especially difficult for teachers, staff and faculty working in charter schools serving rural communities, as the facilities challenges are compounded by the fact that they are rural and charter. These schools often find themselves outside of the systems of support available to their peers within traditional districts.

 

Our work at the Schoolhouse Network is designed to bridge these distances through a forum for communications and networking about, to, and among rural charter schools, as well as by offering a vehicle for active collaboration among participants committed to strengthening information accessible to rural charter schools.