Map: Where Poverty & Test Scores (Don’t?) Intersect In Indianapolis
11 areas of Indianapolis where a report urges local officials to improve schools aren’t necessarily among the city’s poorest.
11 areas of Indianapolis where a report urges local officials to improve schools aren’t necessarily among the city’s poorest.
The story of race and segregation in Indiana schools, the numbers suggest, is complicated.
For more than a decade, the number of children living at or below the poverty line has steadily increased by about 1 percent a year. Census data show nearly one in five children in Indiana are living in households with income levels at 50 percent of the federal poverty level.
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