Although one-third of America’s children attend schools in areas classified as either rural or (small) towns, those schools are faced with numerous hardships compared to their city and suburban counterparts. The funding disparities among rural schools and their wealthier city and suburban counterparts have been significantly reduced, although not altogether erased, in many states during the past 10 to 20 years. Often, change has come as a consequence of legal action challenging state funding formulas that allegedly discriminated against property-poor school districts. Despite obvious gains, however, the struggle for funding equity and adequacy continues to be a paramount issue for rural school advocates in many regions.