Making matters worse for immigrant children is the fact that many
enter poor school districts with insufficient English language learner courses and certified teachers.
Not exact matches
Not only did the
district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the urban
poor who
entered high
school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.
South Carolina has hired Edison
Schools Inc. to try to improve student achievement in the struggling Allendale County
school system, a
poor rural
district entering its fifth
school year under state control.