Donald Trump’s Education Department is cutting funds for some of the most rural schools in the country.

Rural kids deserve equal access to education, whether it's K-12 or college.

However, rural school districts, which serve nearly one in seven public-school students, have long been considered the most underfunded and ignored in the country.

That's why Congress created the Rural Education Achievement Program in 2002. It's the only dedicated federal funding stream for rural school districts.

Rural schools rely on the program to supplement the costs of services that are far less accessible to rural students, like technology, mental health and guidance counselors, and full-day kindergarten.

However, Donald Trump and Betsy Devos abruptly changed how school districts count the number of their students who live in poverty. As a result, more than 800 cash-strapped schools in some of the most geographically isolated communities in the United States stand to lose thousands of dollars.

This bureaucratic bookkeeping decision is either heartless or incompetent.

Please join us. Sign our petition and demand that President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos immediately reverse their decision to alter eligibility requirements for RLIS and refocus on helping small rural schools.