Number: RL33804
Title: Rural Education and the Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP): Overview and Policy Issues
Authors: Jeffrey J. Kuenzi, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: One way that Congress has aimed to aid rural schools is through the Rural Education Achievement Program (REAP), which provides funds to small, rural LEAs (an enrollment of less than 600) and relatively poor rural LEAs (a child poverty rate of at least 20%). Approximately 4,000 LEAs receive funds under the Small, Rural Schools Achievement program (SRSA), and an additional 1,200 LEAs receive Rural Low-Income School (RLIS) grants.
Pages: 37
Date: March 21, 2008