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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Georgia's low-income student population growing

The majority of Georgia’s public school students are considered low-income. That from a report released today by an Atlanta-based education think tank. Fifty-two percent of Georgia public school students qualify for free or reduced-cost school meals. That is 13 points higher than the national average. The report calls the growing number of low income students a “crisis of the first order of magnitude.”

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