The number of children from poor families is rising across the district, and there are more schools with high concentrations of poverty than there were 10 years ago. (sfpublicpress.org)
Conventional wisdom has it that schools with high concentrations of poverty are bad. (educationbythenumbers.org)
In addition to suffering from the problems that all voucher bills have in common, this bill would also undermine the main purpose of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is designed to target federal funds to public schools with high concentrations of poverty in order to provide additional educational services for these students. (ncpecoalition.org)