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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 4, 2016: (Blog) If free and reduced lunch data can’t reliably identify poverty, what can?

July 4, 2016

"In a new report for the Brookings Institution, researcher Matthew M. Chingos says FRL data cannot serve as a proxy for poverty because more and more schools now offer free lunch to all their students."

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