According to a new report by the Southern Educational Foundation, low income students are now a majority of the students attending the nation’s public schools. 51% of the students across the nation’s public schools were low income in 2013. In North Carolina, 53% of the students were low income in the same year.
An article in The Washington Post says, this is “a statistic that has profound implications for the nation.”
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