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Impoverished Schools

The Cost of Education

Ilana Garon | Posted 12.12.2011 | Home
Read More: Poverty in Schools, Public Schools, Impoverished Schools, The Bronx, Public School Funding, Ivy League Schools, Public School Teachers, Bronx-Public-Schools, Home News
Ilana Garon

The poverty of inner-city schools is one of those issues about which everyone has an opinion, but I've found that most people are hard-pressed to describe what this looks like on a day-to-day basis.

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New Orleans Schools: A Nexus Of Poverty, High Expulsion Rates, Hyper-security And Novice Teachers

The American Independent | Mikhail Zinshteyn | Posted 09.22.2011 | Home
Read More: New Orleans, Youth Poverty, School Poverty, Impoverished Schools, Student Poverty, New Orleans Schools, School Security, Teachers, Southern Poverty Law Center, Education Reform, Home News

John, an eighth grader at the time, gives another student on school grounds a candy bar. He is spotted by a security guard and told he now faces suspe...

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