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New Trier Official Says School Still Needs ‘Poverty Grant’
Since 2007 the number of low-income students has roughly doubled to 202 at New Trier High School, Chicago Tribune reports.
New Trier High School Superintendent Linda Yonke says even in a wealthy district there are students in need of “poverty grant” money from the state to help disadvantaged children—since 2007 the number of low-income students has roughly doubled to 202, according to the Illinois Department of Human Services, Chicago Tribune reported.
Many of Illinois’ wealthiest school districts, like New Trier, have seen an increase since 2006 in the amount of poverty grant money from the state even as some of the state’s poorest schools are seeing reductions in their allotment, the newspaper reported.
This school year New Trier received about $63,000 in state poverty money, compared to $14,000 in 2006, but Yonke said that’s not even an average teacher salary at New Trier, where average teacher salary is more than $100,000, Chicago Tribune reported.
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