Today the Center for American Progress released “The Rural Solution: How Community Schools Can Reinvigorate Rural Education.” Combining data from literature on rural communities, interviews, site visits, and the organizational experience of The Rural School and Community Trust, the report offers recommendations for overcoming challenges rural community schools face. One of those recommendations includes using joint use as a way to reduce costs to community school partners undergoing new construction projects. The report lays out specific recommendations states should take to make joint use more feasible for rural communities.