Children in high-poverty schools receive an unmarketable level of education.
Segregated minority schools in metro Boston are also high-poverty schools.
THE new federal education law lets students leave high-poverty schools that are deemed failing.
Last June, more than 8,000 high-poverty schools were found failing.
Sanders successfully established a community gardening program for "high-poverty" schools in the 2008 farm bill.
"The whole theory behind Abbott was simply that providing money to high-poverty schools was not sufficient," he said.
"But in high-poverty schools, kids have fewer sources of rescue if the school screws up."
The report presents 49 indicators on the status and condition of education, in addition to a special section on high-poverty schools.
National efforts to bring reform to scale in high-poverty schools: Outcomes and implications.
Missouri professional school counselors: Ratios matter, especially in high-poverty schools.