The report's biggest flaw is its assumption that poverty alone defines the problems of the low-income school.

But 24 percent of the state's low-income schools are deemed failing, higher than almost anywhere else.

Chinea believes that the district is taking little action against the conditions rampant in various low-income schools.

Currently the law calls for low-income schools to have "highly qualified" teachers, with degrees in the subjects they are teaching.

This is followed by placement in government-run or low-income private schools for two consecutive academic years.

Bills now before Congress would give income tax credits to teachers in low-income schools.

True, low-income private schools sometimes seem to excel - by concentrating a neighborhood's most motivated parents and students.

By doing so, however, they would also lose all federal aid to low-income schools.

These groups include community groups, low-income schools and hospitals.

Likewise, the school advises the overall administration of five low-income public schools in Bogotá.