Lets take a snapshot of the graduating class of the year 2000the 3.6 million children who began their formal schooling in September 1987: One out of four of these children are from families who live in poverty. Fourteen percent are the children of teenage mothers and sixty percent will live in single parent households before they are 18 years old. Thirtyfive percent will be on welfare before age 18. Fifteen percent are immigrants who speak little or no English. Ten percent have illiterate parents and 1 out of 7 will be considered illiterate by his or her 18 birthday. Perhaps most disturbing. 30 percent will never finish high school.
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