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As one of the most notorious challenges the human race faces today, poverty ensures the crippling of opportunities that may slip through our fingertips. Education has become a crucial skill and aspect needed for citizens to lead successful, comfortable, and financial stable lives. The Other Wes Moore gives an insight to how poverty in schools set the motion of the under development of children and what their lives could result in. Poverty can be the tie breaker of what path children will walk down, whether through their own choice, or the closing window of a missed opportunity.

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Ruling for Poor School District Funding

An article by Shelly Sigo, “Ruling for Poor School District Funding Positive: Moody’s” in The Bond Buyer, begins to convey that in the state of South Carolina, provisions for funding to poor children had been minimal, violating the state’s constitution. On November 12 of just this year, the state’s court had resolved this 21 year old case, establishing that the formula for funding their schools had been “fractured”. Primarily overlooking the blame, the state lawmakers and school officials immediately pushed new plans to help relieve the situation of under funding. Sigo continues with the state’s plan to create a new funding formula for their schools and also the differences between the distributions of aid for other state’s. Currently in South Carolina, school funding is fixed upon the states market taxability. Sigo elaborates on a proposed 3 way allocation of the state formula: change the formula, overhaul the formula, or fully fund the student cost requirement.

Sigo brought light to a misstep in the process of setting forth an equal amount of education for children and students. After all that we’ve discovered about child development, it seems as if there needs to be a sacrifice children’s education with go first, which is entirely wrong. If funding formula’s for education do not tend to high poverty areas, and low income households, this may be the cause of larger class sizes, fewer resources for students, and over crowded schools. The children should not have their education stolen from them at such a prominent young age. With disregarding the blame, the issue should have been addressed, while fixing the school’s funding. Whoever did not calculate the correct amount of funding should be reevaluated to base their understanding and knowledge of their own job. If the funding issue had persisted longer, children would, soon enough, begin to perform lower educationally, as an end result, contributing to the poverty cycle.

S.C. Ruling for Poor School District Funding Positive: Moody’s.” The Bond Buyer 21 Nov. 2014. General OneFile. Web. 24 Nov. 2014.

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One of the statistics given in the video by the Annie E Casey Foundation, was 22% of children living in poverty, do not graduate. Poverty is one of the first challenges that afflicts children at a very young age. The speaker, expresses the need to be exposed to successful role models, that can motivate them to break the grasp that poverty had over their lives. Those who live in communities that do not have sufficient resources for education, even market places, don't have the drive to change their lives. They are constantly surrounded by the idea that they don't have the capabilities to reach out for more in their lives, which contributes to the cycle poverty. Even for those who do graduate, are not graduating with the proper tools to succeed in the workforce. The education pipeline, has to be strengthened within the nation, to create a shift in the economy and a shift that can help those in need.