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[quote=Anonymous]I think the primary point about income verification is not so much whether we should or should be strict about it as a policy matter (although I see no reason not to require a minimal level of verification), but to point out that when someone is pointing to the FARMs percentages at a given school as a way to reference the level of poverty at that school, it is an overinflated number of the percentage of students at that school in poverty.  How big the gap is between the percentage of students who claim to be eligible for FARMs and the percentage of students who actually are eligible for FARMs, I don't know, but I think we'd be kidding ourselves to think the difference is negligible.

Personally, I have looked at certain schools and the percentage of FARMs, then compared that to census numbers for median family income, and I have a hard time believing that some of these schools have as many students as they claim to have coming from families making as little as is required to be eligible for FARMs.  [/quote]

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