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progress: question id: 1067649 the movement of the progress bar may be uneven because questions can be worth more or less (including zero) depending on your answer. read paragraphs 5, 6, and 7 from the passage. what is the authors main idea in these paragraphs? families should have a choice in where to send their children to school to allow them to reach their academic goals. school choice programs that keep needy children in the public school system is an idea worth considering. dual - language public schools are an absolute necessity for larger cities with high immigrant populations. sending low - income children to private school is the best way to ensure they receive an excellent education. reading passage the link between education and poverty 1. imagine a classroom of 20 children, ready for learning. in this class, 12 of them - over half - are considered low - income or poor. of the 72 million children in the united states, more than 45 million of them are growing up in low - income or poor families. that is 64 percent of children in the richest country in the world living just above or under the poverty line (jiang 1). there are many causes to poverty, but none as inextricably linked as education. in fact, children whose parents have less than a high school degree have a significantly increased chance of growing up in poverty (jiang 5). poverty and lack of education are connected in a continuing, ever - worsening cycle. in fact, poverty is both a cause and an effect of lack of education. 2. one of the ways poverty negatively impacts educational outcomes is that poorer neighborhoods are not able to fund their schools adequately. public schools are funded with property taxes from the surrounding areas, meaning that poorer neighborhoods bring in less tax revenue, resulting in less funding for their schools. sean slade, senior director of global outreach at the association for supervision and curriculum development believes that how we fund our school systems is fundamentally flawed. he writes, “we have established systems that perpetuate and even accentuate poverty. schools in low socioeconomic areas are underfunded when

Explanation:

By analyzing the reading - passage options, we look for the one that best represents the main idea likely presented in paragraphs 5, 6, and 7. The passage discusses the link between education and poverty, and school - choice is a relevant theme in the context of improving educational outcomes for low - income children. Option 2 about school choice programs for needy children in the public school system aligns with the overall context of education and poverty.

Answer:

School choice programs that keep needy children in the public school system is an idea worth considering.