Most are state-financed and in high-poverty areas.

Why aren't serious attempts being made to recruit and retain the best qualified teachers for high-poverty areas?

We should remember that schools in high-poverty areas, which tend to have the lowest scores, also tend to have the highest transience rates for students.

Uses census data to determine student need in high-poverty areas, rather than relying on paper applications.

In high-poverty areas, as many as 50 percent of the math teachers have not studied math.

And then there is, for the first time ever, a zero capital gains on people who start trade or businesses in high-poverty areas of D.C.

The 40% threshold to designate "high-poverty areas" was set by doubling the low-income threshold.

There is also evidence that subjects like art and foreign language are being cut back, especially in high-poverty areas.

A very small portion of low-income white families lives in high-poverty areas.

The proposal for more family planning services said, "In-school clinics can be established in high-poverty areas with high rates of out-of-wedlock births."