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Child Poverty

The Rochester City School District has the highest poverty level of New York State’s Big 5 districts. Half of the schools in the district are at 90% of the poverty level or higher.

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Submitted by maggie tonkinsonAnonymous (not verified) on Thu, 01/31/2008 - 2:53pm.

Many ambitious schemes have bitten the dust that tried to improve achievement in the District. In a district faced with such a high poverty level, not a whole lot will work. The poverty level will hold these children back. The children in the ghetto schools lack role models and encouragement. More needs to be done to alleviate poverty and give these children incentive. Also, our community needs to establish a county-wide school district to break up the concentrated poverty in the inner city. The pproblem of low achieving city schools affects the whole community.