Saturday, June 21, 2014
COMMUNITY ELIGIBILITY DATA REVEAL CONCENTRATED POVERTY
New data, collected for the first time as part of the community eligibility provision of the school lunch and breakfast programs, show that thousands of schools across the country have very high concentrations of poor students. Community eligibility allows schools serving high-poverty areas to serve meals at no charge to all students. Schools and districts are eligible if 40% or more of their students automatically qualify for free meals because they have been identified as low income by another program (such as SNAP) or are considered at risk of hunger (because they are homeless, for example). More than 20% of schools and districts nationwide — over 28,000 schools and more than 3,000 districts — meet those criteria. Even more startling, in more than 8,000 of those 28,000 schools, 60% or more of students are identified as low income.
Source: Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, 6/16/14, Community Eligibility
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