By Cara Nixon, Photo: Julie Leopo/EdSource, EdSource, July 19, 2023
Every time former Superintendent Robin Jones walked into Kit Carson Elementary School, she remembered getting off the bus and walking down the hallway as a child.
Jones, who attended Kit Carson K-8, said coming back as an administrator “just happened.” She recalls becoming superintendent there partially because she didn’t want anyone else to have the job.
“I just felt like, well, no one’s going to treat it the way I would treat it,” she said.
Kit Carson is located in rural, agriculturally focused Hanford, in the central San Joaquin Valley. Rural areas often deal with “brain drain,” or the loss of college-educated people to urban areas. A 2021 article published in Rural Sociology found, however, that college graduates who had attended a rural public K-12 school and had stronger attachment to those schools were more likely to return to their rural hometowns.
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