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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think its important to remember this is about poverty for kids enrolled in PUBLIC SCHOOLS. thats not the same as sayiing 50% of ALL kids in US live in poverty.   I don't know the second number but I would assume its less than 50%. I think part of this number is a reflection of more and more parents putting their kids in private, charter and home school. bascially you are seeing a pheonomenom where parents who do have a choice, choose to leave public schools.  They may also live in poverty but for whatever reason of ability, have pulled their kids out.   This is so different from even when I was a kid in the 80s.  I went to a mix of average to below average public shcools, my family was high income. Everyone we were friends with were upper middle income and we all went to the same public schools. I think parents now are inundated with so much information about how poverty creates a negative learning environment etc that they are trying a hell of lot harder than a generation before to get their kids out of public schools.  To be fair, I am probably one of those parents.   Issues my own parents probably would have ignored, I am overly concerned with.  My parents never could have told you a FARMS rate or free lunch percent at any of my public schools (and my mom was a teacher). But I know that for every single choice we are looking at in D. And its very likely that we will end up in a charter. 
I think this article was important but we need more information on the increase in school age kids who simply no longer in the public school system. I think for both DC and new orleans at least half of all kids are not in public schools. [/quote]

Charter schools are public schools, therefore I would imagine that they are included in the 50% poverty analysis. There are plenty of FARMs children in charter. The charter movement was originally designed with them in mind. [/quote]

They get public funding but more often than not studies actually do not think of them as "public students" and its unclear if that study made that distinction.  In DC, when we talk about "public school" students, it very distinctly means kids in DCPS, NOT in charter schools. And in DC I would argue that more high SES families are fleeing to charters which is leaving th poor kids in DCPS.  this study may or may not be flawed but they fail to be clear on these issues.  Basis research 101.[/quote]

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