Question

unit: applied critical analysis
test
the movement of the progress bar may be uneven because questions can be worth more or less (including zero) depending on your answer
question id: 067649
read paragraphs 5, 6, and 7 from the passage.
what is the authors main idea in these paragraphs?
sending low - income children to private school is the best way to ensure they receive an excellent education.
dual - language public schools are an absolute necessity for larger cities with high immigrant populations.
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.
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 exacerbate poverty.” schools in low socioeconomic areas are underfunded when compared to higher

Explanation:

By analyzing the reading - passage about the link between education and poverty, we need to find the main idea from paragraphs 5, 6 and 7. The passage focuses on the issue of education for low - income children and the importance of school choice programs that keep them in the public school system. The other options are either not mentioned in the relevant paragraphs or are not the main focus.

Answer:

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