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April 25: John Rogers discusses students and poverty with SB Sun
- 04-27-2010
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IDEA Director John Rogers told the San Bernardino Sun that poor students are more likely to move around frequently and more likely to go hungry than other students. They inevitably bring that stress into the classrooms.
SB City Unified's number of poor kids ranks a top
James Rufus Koren, Staff Writer
Sunday, April 25, 2010
SAN BERNARDINO--The school district has more poor students than any other large school district in California, a fact that academics and district leaders say is at least partly responsible for the district's chronic low performance.
But with existing resources, it's not clear what more the San Bernardino City Unified School District can do to ease the problems poverty creates, raise student test scores and put poor students on an even playing field with their more affluent peers.
"Poverty is at least one of the components that affects how well students do in school," said Superintendent Arturo Delgado. "But that's not an indicator that kids can't learn."
Last school year, more than 45,000 students--nearly 83 percent of the district's 54,727 total students--qualified for free or reduced-price lunches. The statistic is commonly used by public schools to measure poverty.
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