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Article: Montgomery County turning the page
- Article from:
- The Crisis
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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CopyrightCopyright Crisis Publishing Company, Incorporated Jan/Feb 2001. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Just as there are two sides to every story, there are two ways of looking at Montgomery County, Md., where 850,000 residents are wedged between Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
There is the Montgomery County where the average annual household income is $90,000, where one in six residents holds a good government job, where the public schools are dean and test scores are high. Then there is the Montgomery County where one in four students qualifies for free lunch programs, where poverty is suffered disproportionately between races, where African-American and Hispanic students continue to test lower than their white and Asian counterparts. Two sides to the story. Two very different worlds to ...