Nationally, educational policies directed at neediest schools tend to aggregate to urban areas. However, many states and most of the US’s 15,000 school districts are distinctly rural (Institute for Education Science, 2007-2008). More schools receiving federal funding for rural and low income schools are located in the South than in other regions of the US (Magill, Hallberg, Hinojosa, & Reeves, 2010). More children in poverty live in the South (Mattingly & Turcotte-Seabury, 2010).