Question

applied critical analysis
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read paragraph 4 from the passage.
what is the authors main idea in this paragraph?
funding for schools should move from a closed system to an open system to encourage innovation in school settings.
giving parents the ability to choose the schools their children attend creates more options for low - income families.
school voucher programs that send kids who normally attend public school to private school are not effective and harmful to public school systems.
students who attend public schools usually have the same experiences as students who attend private schools.
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 area, meaning that poorer neighborhoods bring in less tax revenue, resulting in less funding for their schools. sean stark, 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 accumulate poverty. schools in low socioeconomic areas are underfunded when compared to higher

Explanation:

To find the main idea, one must analyze the content of paragraph 4. The passage discusses the link between education and poverty, and how school - funding and choice impact low - income families. By considering the context and the overall theme of the passage, we can determine the main idea.

Answer:

There is no paragraph 4 shown in the provided image. However, based on the options and the overall context of the passage about education and poverty, if we assume we had the paragraph and were to analyze it in the context of the overall passage, we would look for the option that best aligns with the themes of school funding, family choice, and the impact on low - income families. Without the actual paragraph, we cannot definitively choose an answer from the given options.