Question

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, 17 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 2). 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 slade, senior director of catalyst oregon 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 exacerbate poverty. schools in low socioeconomic areas are underfunded when compared to higher

Explanation:

To determine the main idea, one must analyze the content of paragraph 4. Without seeing the actual paragraph 4, we assume based on common - sense in education discussions that the main idea is likely related to educational funding and its improvement. Among the options, the idea of moving school funding from a closed to an open system to encourage innovation in school settings seems to be a comprehensive statement about educational improvement.

Answer:

Funding for schools should move from a closed system to an open system to encourage innovation in school settings.