If you stand for children, wouldn’t you do something about this data?
45% of Illinois public school children are poor. And the number is growing.
While Reformy groups like the well-funded Oregon-based Stand for Children concentrate on non-issues like tenure, and teacher-blaming issues like teacher collective bargaining rights, the number of children who qualify for free lunch programs continues to rise.
As a group, Illinois’ public school children are fewer in number, increasingly poor, more diverse and more likely than in recent years to spend the entire