“…The challenges rural schools face are related to personnel, competence, population structure, and organizational factors. Schools in remote areas in particular face difficulties attracting and retaining qualified teachers and specialist teachers, for example, special education teachers (Berry, Petrin, Gravelle, & Farmer, 2011;Pettersson, Ström, & Johansen, 2016). Furthermore, many rural schools constantly live under the threat of closure (Autti & Hyry-Beihammer, 2014;Cedering, 2016;Egelund & Laustsen, 2006;Karlberg-Granlund, 2011;Pettersson et al, 2016;Solstad, 2009).…”