Question

the assessment of the progress bar may be uneven because questions can be worth more or less (including zero) depending on your answer. read paragraphs 2 and 3 from the passage. what is the author’s main idea in these paragraphs? providing adequate federal funding for public schools would improve education in high - poverty areas. the title i program is an example of unfair treatment of wealthier schools by the federal government. property taxes are the best way to fund schools because it ensures fairness amongst neighborhoods. extracurricular programs, such as sports, music, and the arts, are lacking in public schools and deserve funding. reading passage the link between education and poverty 1 imagine a classroom of 20 children, ready for learning. in this class, 12 of them - over half - are considered low - income or poor. of the 72 million children in the united states, more than 45 million of them are growing up in low - income or poor families. that is 64 percent of children in the richest country in the world living just above or under the poverty line (jiang 1). there are many causes to poverty, but none as inextricably linked as education. in fact, children whose parents have less than a high school degree have a significantly increased chance of growing up in poverty (jiang 5). poverty and lack of education are connected in a continuing, ever - worsening cycle. in fact, poverty is both a cause and an effect of lack of education. 2. one of the ways poverty negatively impacts educational outcomes is that poorer neighborhoods are not able to fund their schools adequately. public schools are funded with property taxes from the surrounding areas, meaning that poorer neighborhoods bring in less tax revenue, resulting in less funding for their schools. sean slade, senior director of global outreach at the association for supervision and curriculum development believes that how we fund our school systems is fundamentally flawed. he writes, “we have established systems that perpetuate and even accentuate poverty. schools in low socioeconomic areas are underfunded when...

Explanation:

To determine the author's main idea in paragraphs 2 and 3, we analyze the content. Paragraph 2 (and likely 3, from the provided text) focuses on how poverty affects school funding (public schools are funded by property taxes, so poorer neighborhoods have less funding). Now we analyze the options:

• Option 1: "Providing adequate federal funding for public schools would improve education in high - poverty areas." This aligns with the idea that current funding (based on property taxes) is flawed for poor areas, and federal funding could address the underfunding in high - poverty areas (since the passage shows poor neighborhoods can't fund schools adequately, so federal funding would help).
• Option 2: The passage doesn't discuss Title I program treating wealthier schools unfairly. It's about poverty and school funding, not Title I and wealthy schools. Eliminate.
• Option 3: The passage shows property taxes lead to unfairness (poorer neighborhoods get less funding), so property taxes are not presented as the "best way" for fairness. Eliminate.
• Option 4: The passage's focus in these paragraphs is on school funding and poverty, not on extracurricular programs lacking funding. Eliminate.

Answer:

A. Providing adequate federal funding for public schools would improve education in high - poverty areas.