For a single mom, that’s less than $30,000 for reduced-price meals or about $21,000 for free meals. To qualify for free or reduced-price lunches a child’s family must earn less than 185 percent of what the federal government has determined is the poverty threshold. Last school year, there were 206,075 such students. Ten years ago, 156,906 students came from families that qualified for free or reduced-price school meals. The judge’s decision comes at a time when the number of children from low-income families in Connecticut public schools has been steadily increasing. “The state of education in some towns is alarming…In the schools at the center of this case in particular, everyone agrees that crushing socio-economic circumstances handicap many of the students.” “Schools serving the poorest in Connecticut are concentrated in just 30 of its 169 municipalities,” Judge Moukawsher wrote.
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