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Texas: almost 60% of public school children are poor; half Hispanic; more non-English fluent - 01/03/10
Ericka Mellon of the Houston Chronicle offers this:
Almost six out of 10 Texas public schoolchildren hail from low-income families, marking a troubling spike in poverty over the last decade, a new state report finds.
The increase coincides with a significant jump in the number of Hispanic students, while fewer Anglo students were enrolled last year than 10 years ago, according to the study by the...
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