Bus Company, with Tyrer Bus operating some tendered town services. Other services are provided by First Greater Manchester (589 to Rochdale, 592 to Halifax), Blackburn Bus Company (152 to Preston) and Rosso (483 to Bury). National Express operates three coach services to London each day, and one to Birmingham. The town has good bus links into Manchester. The X43 Witch Way service (operated by Burnley Bus Company) runs from Skipton, to Manchester via Barnoldswick, Colne, Nelson, Burnley, Rawtenstall and Prestwich using a fleet of specially branded double-decker buses. The fastest journeys take 59 minutes. On Sundays, the service used to continue further on from Skipton to the nearby town of Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales but in 2019 this was replaces by a Skipton -Grassington service operated byJackie Mader is a reporter for The Hechinger Report, covering pre-K-12 issues from her home base in Jackson, Miss. Join her as she discusses the latest news, trends, and issues facing rural schools and students.

New Mexico Rural Initiative Shows Promise, Disappears

Declining population and dwindling economic opportunities are all too common problems in rural communities, but one New Mexico project found an answer to both through its schools until it lost its funding.

The state launched the New Mexico Rural Revitalization Initiative in 2005 with seven school districts, and officials modeled the program on what they'd seen working in South Australia. There, remote schools became integral to the community's survival, and schools and communities worked together for each other's benefit.

New Mexico has the fifth-largest land mass in the U.S. but