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More than Half of US Public School Students Live in Poverty, Report Finds

Jana Kasperkevic The Guardian (UK)
Low income students are now a majority of the schoolchildren attending the nation's public schools, according to this research bulletin. The latest data collected from the states by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), show that 51 percent of the students across the nation's public schools were low income in 2013.
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