Poor Students are First in Line: How Poverty Affects the Educational Achievement of Students in Chicago Public Schools
For years, education has been one of the major factors in the lives and success of children. Furthermore, poverty has been a major hindrance in the educational achievement for students. This research explores the effect of poverty on educational attainment for students in the Chicago Public School district and how it relates to the No Child Left Behind Act's Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) statute. Information was gathered from the Illinois Board of Education database and from previously written academic literature to compare the differences between the education of students from low-income backgrounds attending high schools in Chicago that failed to meet the states' 2004-2005 Adequate Yearly Progress standards, and students attending high schools that did meet AYP. Once this research was correlated, it was determined that poverty and the policy pressures from the AYP statute is hindering thousands of students within the Chicago Public School district from achieving an affluent education.
School:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Department:
Political Science
Research Advisor:
James D. Anderson
Department of Research Advisor:
Educucational Policy Studies
Year of Publication:
2006