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School system characteristics

  Poverty status of
5- to 17-year olds: 19981		   Number of children (birth to age 21) served
under state-operated Individuals with
Disabilities Education Act and Chapter
1 of the Education Consolidation
and Improvement Act Programs2
  Number in Poverty
(in thousands)		 Percent
in Poverty		 1998-99
School Year
(in thousands)		 Percent Change:
1990-91 to 1998-99
Nation 9,167   17.8   6,055 27.2  
Alabama 156   21.8   100 5.1  
Alaska 13   9.0   18 20.1  
Arizona 222   23.6   89 54.8  
Arkansas 57   13.1   59 23.6  
California 1,459   22.3   624 32.9  
Colorado 93   12.5   75 31.4  
Connecticut 82   13.4   77 18.9  
Delaware 24   15.7   16 13.6  
District of Columbia 33   46.0   8 29.8  
Florida 474   20.5   345 46.3  
Georgia 377   24.7   156 52.7  
Hawaii 32   14.5   21 56.1  
Idaho 50   17.4   28 25.1  
Illinois 308   12.1   282 17.9  
Indiana 140   12.6   147 27.8  
Iowa 73   14.2   71 16.9  
Kansas 59   13.2   58 29.2  
Kentucky 118   16.7   88 10.8  
Louisiana 244   29.8   95 29.3  
Maine 27   12.0   34 22.5  
Maryland 66   8.1   112 22.4  
Massachusetts 163   15.0   169 9.3  
Michigan 311   14.8   208 24.8  
Minnesota 130   12.6   106 31.3  
Mississippi 108   19.3   62 1.4  
Missouri 136   14.4   132 29.0  
Montana 42   21.2   19 9.7  
Nebraska 54   14.8   43 32.5  
Nevada 49   12.8   33 80.7  
New Hampshire 34   13.3   28 39.9  
New Jersey 194   13.2   210 15.9  
New Mexico 101   23.5   52 44.6  
New York 848   28.9   432 40.6  
North Carolina 277   21.3   165 34.3  
North Dakota 28   17.2   13 5.4  
Ohio 339   16.0   230 12.0  
Oklahoma 120   19.9   80 22.3  
Oregon 121   19.4   70 26.8  
Pennsylvania 382   18.0   228 3.8  
Rhode Island 36   20.5   28 32.4  
South Carolina 129   17.6   99 27.3  
South Dakota 13   9.2   16 4.8  
Tennessee 156   14.5   128 22.3  
Texas 809   20.1   487 38.8  
Utah 55   11.8   55 15.7  
Vermont 13   12.2   13 3.6  
Virginia 92   7.9   154 34.9  
Washington 118   10.8   114 33.7  
West Virginia 65   25.7   50 15.8  
Wisconsin 109   11.5   116 33.8  
Wyoming 13   13.0   13 19.0  
American Samoa --   --   1 60.9  
Guam --   --   2 18.6  
Virgin Islands --   --   2 32.9  

1 U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Decennial Census, Minority Economic Profiles, unpublished data; and Current Population Reports, Series P-60, "Poverty in the United States," "Money Income of Households, Families, and Persons in the United States," and "Income, Poverty, and Valuation of Noncash Benefits," various years, and "Money Income in the U.S.: 1998," P60-201.
2 U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, various years, and unpublished tabulations.

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Last updated 19 November 2001 (CLH)