Erica Bryant on concentrated poverty

I read with interest Erica Bryant’s D&C column over the past weekend that focuses precisely on the key concern of Great Schools for All: the concentration of economically disadvantaged students in any given school. Only one school in Rochester meets school reformers’ guideline of fewer than 40%, she said. Yet the New York State Education Department is encouraging that school to accept more students from poor families. Please see “Keep middle-class kids in charter schools.”

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