Professor quoted in Red & Black story on poverty in schools
Sheneka Williams, associate professor in the department of lifelong education, administration and policy, cites an increase in immigration and a distrust of the public school system by the middle class as factors to the increase in the number of students living in poverty. The story, published recently in the Red & Black, follows a statistic from the Southern Educational Foundation that found 51 percent of public school students come from low-income families, making them the majority in the public school systems.