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EFTA01201976 | EFTA01201994 tt":,: its„ Three-year-old Soria Amapa waits with her mother after renting shoes and tit t t; ?hit :t. irt help more than 4.000 tendetpribileged children at the FredJordan Mission in the SAMRow area ofLos Angeles. Children firm lowtmeumejamdtes now nude up a marunty of public schoolmoderns in the nation. according to a new report. We have known for years that income inequality is disease that is increasingly damaging society and nowhere is more destructive than with our children. So when a new report based on the analysis of 2013 federal data by the Southern Education Foundation confirming that for the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation, an alarm should ring in our collective concern. The reports says that 51 percent of students in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade were eligible under the federal program for free and reduced-price lunches in the 2012-2013 school year. The lunch program is a rough proxy for poverty and the explosion in the number of needy children in the nation's public classrooms is a recent phenomenon that has been gaining attention among educators, public officials and researchers. The shift to a majority-poor student population means that in public schools, more than half of the children start kindergarten already trailing their more privileged peers and rarely, if ever, catch up. They are less likely to have support at home to succeed, are less frequently exposed to enriching activities outside of school, and are more likely to drop out and never attend college. It also means that education policy, funding decisions and classroom instruction must adapt to the swelling ranks of needy children arriving at the schoolhouse door each morning. Schools, already under intense pressure to deliver better test results and meet more rigorous standards, face the doubly difficult task of trying to raise the achievement of poor children so that they approach the same level as their more affluent peers. "This is a watershed moment when you look at that map,"said Kent McGuire, president of the Southern Education Foundation, the nation's oldest education philanthropy, referring to a large swath of the country filled with high-poverty schools. "The fact is, we've had growing inequality in the countryfor many years," he said. "It didn't happen overnight, but it's steadily been happening. Government used to be a source of leadership and innovation around issues of economic prosperity and upward mobility. Now we're a country disinclined to invest in our young people." EFTA01201994
May 13, 2026 at 6:55 AM