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The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
Ruby K. Payne is an American educator and author best known for her book A Framework for Understanding Poverty and her work on the culture of poverty and its relation to education. [1] Payne received an undergraduate degree from Goshen College in 1972. [ 2 ]
Philip Alston, a UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, stated the World Bank's international poverty line of $1.90 a day is fundamentally flawed, and has allowed for "self congratulatory" triumphalism in the fight against extreme global poverty, which he asserts is "completely off track" and that nearly half of the global ...
According to the Community Legislative Action Team, also known as CLAT, Des Moines Public School officials have seen that at least 76.3% of their more than 30,000 students qualify for free and ...
According to the latest data from the Census Bureau, 14% of Texas’ population of roughly 30 million people are living in poverty. This is higher than the national average of 11.6%, or 37.9 ...
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There are certain regions with higher concentrations of child poverty, due to employment opportunities, industries, and racial/ethnic distribution. [8] [5] [7] Counties with mainly mining, farming, and government dependent industries have the highest levels of poverty with 23%, 21%, and 20% respectively. [5]
The Texas Board of Education approved a new K-5 curriculum that allows Bible teachings in classrooms. The curriculum includes Biblical and Christian lessons about Moses, the story of the Good ...