There are more than 14 million children in America living in poverty. Visit the Children's Defense Fund website to learn more.
In the United States, 12.4 million children don't have enough healthy food to survive. Hungry children are more likely to achieve lower test scores, repeat a grade or miss school. To learn more, visit the Redwood Empire Food Bank website.
According to the Broad Foundation, Two-thirds of the jobs in the United States require a college education.
While 77% of children in school ages 7–17 from higher-income households (earning more than $75,000 per year) use a home computer to complete school assignments, only 29% of children from households earning less than $15,000 annually do so. See the Report by Children's Partnership.
Dropouts have an average annual income of $22,000. College graduates will earn $2.1million in a lifetime.
Latinos have the highest dropout rate of all racial and ethnic groups.
In the United States, one student drops out of school every 12 seconds.
In the United States, 93% of graduates from National Coalition of Girls’ Schools believed that girls’ schools provide greater leadership opportunities than coeducational school.
According to a study by Linda J. Sax, women who attend single-sex schools outscore their coeducational counterparts on the SAT.
According to PBS, an extra year of school can reduce infant mortality by 5-10%.
Statistics for North Carolina
In North Carolina, a child is born into poverty every 19 minutes. To learn more, visit the Children's Defense Fund website.
According to the Children's Defense Fund, in 2007, a disproportionate number of Black and Latino fourth graders could not read or do math at grade level.
In North Carolina:
Almost 68,000 students in Charlotte public schools are elgible for free or reduced lunch. See this article.
In Charlotte, there has been a 33% increase in the number of people receiving emergency rent and utility assistance. For more information, visit the Crisis Assistance Ministry website.
According to a study by UNC Charlotte, over 60% of women in poverty in Charlotte have no education beyond high school.
· In Mecklenburg county, about 42% of black and Latina girls drop out of high school.