By Lauren Camera | U.S. News & World Report
“It’s becoming more difficult for schools to accurately gauge the number of poor students they enroll – an important metric that’s used for everything from doling out federal aid to tracking academic performance and measuring achievement gaps.
For decades, schools have defined low-income students as those who enroll in the National School Lunch Program, which provides free- and reduced-priced lunch to eligible kids – those whose families below 185 percent of the federal poverty line, or about $45,000 for a family of four.”