Manila, Philippines (CNN) -- Growing up, Cecilia Lopez hoped to escape poverty by finishing school and becoming a teacher.
They must work hard to escape poverty by going to school, do a good job at work and not be involved in crime.
Meanwhile, Mississippi scored at or near the bottom on 11 of the 22 survey measures, showing a high prevalence of obesity, high rate of childhood poverty, low high school graduation rates, limited availability of primary care physicians and many preventable hospitalizations.
Dr Sam Royston, policy advisor at the Children's Society, believes more than half of school children living in poverty, around 1.2 million, are still not receiving a free school meal.
Free school meals are a standard poverty indicator - used by the inspectorate, Ofsted, to judge how well one school is doing compared with others "in similar circumstances".
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We know by now that the poverty-causes-terrorism school is false, but this is one more reminder.
The poverty rate among high-school dropouts is 12 times the rate for college graduates.
Chicago schools suffer, in heavy doses, all the ills of urban school districts: poverty, gang activity and teen pregnancies.
These include the acute shortage of qualified teachers, financial resources and appropriate educational resources (such as school buildings and textbooks) as well as the failure of most parents to send their children to school due to poverty.
Around 139, 800 children live in poverty in Scotland but only 97, 096 receive a free school meal, figures compiled by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland show.
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"No-one can tell me that raping a three-month-old baby or 87-year-old granny or burning a library or vandalising a school is caused by poverty, " said trade union federation leader Zwelenzima Vavi, in a recent Tweet exchange.
According to the film, more than 1m students in China leave school each year due to poverty.
The child poverty charity highlights the range of extra school expenses faced by families, including trips, swimming and music lessons.
Some 19% of children in poverty said they had missed out on school trips and 14% said they did not have a warm coat to wear in the winter.
And it is tackling the long-term causes of child poverty through policies aimed at pre-school children in poor areas, and a new programme designed to cut teenage pregnancy.
But a persistent crime problem, made worse by staggering poverty, widespread unemployment and a failing school system, threatens to snuff out that recovery before it even takes root.
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The report recommended action to tackle low incomes, as well as food poverty and the link between poverty and children's poor performance at school.
Combine that with abandoned factories, a rotten school system and a 20% poverty rate and you get a real package of reasons to stay clear.
Some 20% of the intake are on free school meals, an indicator of poverty often linked with poor academic performance, and 20% do not speak English at home.
Over those many years, the organization has endeavored to always meet the Head Start goal of helping young children living in poverty develop the skills needed to succeed in school and life.
He could get worked up about poverty, and why he was there in the school.
Beijing is the great crucible of social reinvention, and every child learns that hard work at school is a potential escape route from poverty.
"I love Malawi, I am committed to help end poverty here, " the pop star said as school children, joined by hundreds of villagers, danced around her at the school.
Mr Laws told delegates it was "quite literally intolerable" that in some schools and certain areas of the country almost eight in 10 children on free school meals - a key measure of poverty - failed to get five good GCSEs, including maths and English.
The assessment says the school "does not ensure that people in poverty are not excluded from the opportunity to benefit".
Children of single parents are much more likely to experience childhood poverty, become teenage parents, and drop out of school.
Robichaux, now 45 and a longtime Louisiana educator, had become the principal of KIPP Phillips Preparatory, a new public charter school that had opened for summer school in July 2005 in New Orleans' poverty-stricken Seventh Ward.
Under his proposal, the U.S. Department of Education would allocate dollars to states based their share of four-year olds from low- and moderate-income families (those at or below 200% of the poverty line) and funds would be distributed to local school districts and other partner providers to implement the program.
And what you'll find in the Midwest, the Hmong population - there's a lot of ginseng farming, not that push for educational attainment and just, in general, those groups still don't overshadow the fact that even East Asian descent Asian-Americans have higher rates of poverty and still higher rates of not having a high school education or less than a high school education, as well.
As the recession caused poverty to spread, older girls were increasingly taken out of school, says the report.
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