How the economy is failing students
How the economy is failing students - Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 | 2 a.m. - Las Vegas SunThe Clark County School District has always struggled with its sky-high population of poor children. The number of homeless students is expected to reach 8,000 by the end of the academic year, a 30 percent increase. And a full 44 percent of the district’s students receive free or reduced-price lunches, a commonly used indicator of childhood poverty.
Family poverty, in turn, is correlated with lagging student achievement.
