Education and poverty linked in the South

More than half of students in Southern schools are from low-income families, which is creating a "crisis of the first order of magnitude" according to an Atlanta foundation.

"The [54] percentage in the 15-state Southern region rose slightly from previous years and is the nation's highest, ahead of the West at 47 percent and the Midwest and Northeast at 36 percent each, according to the Southern Education Foundation's report issued Tuesday."

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