Less money for both schools and students = lower student performance

Check out this short article in the Wall Street Journal:
Academic Success Versus High Poverty
  on the disparity between well-off and poorer schools and students.
Poverty is a huge factor in student performance.  I imagine many factors of oppression and status quo of both the 1950 and 60s model of education hand in hand with the poverty of schools.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704893604576200701272119020.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLEThirdBucket