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Only 9 percent of South Carolina’s poor and near-poor 8th grade students scored “proficient or advanced” in reading in 1998, while 29 percent of students from middle-class and affluent families scored proficient or better.
Miles To Go South Carolina (2002)

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Education After Katrina Executive Summary
 
Click to view the full article (PDF) This document is a 3-page executive summary of “Education after Katrina,” outlining the major findings of the report—declining student enrollments, lost school time among K-12 and college students, and the severe impact on regional child care systems—and argues for a “new federal response” to the relief and recovery related to education after Katrina, including:

• Conduct a comprehensive review of needs and take appropriate action to assist Gulf Coast schools.

• Help Gulf Coast colleges in need of support for recovery.

• Develop a plan to assist dropout students at all levels.

• Mobilize health care professionals to help storm-affected students and their parents.

 
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