Sixty-four percent of young black male fourth-graders eligible for the National School Lunch Program read Below Basic on the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress. Yes, you read that correctly. Two out of every three. And they are not alone. Forty-two percent of their young white male counterparts in fourth grade on school lunch programs, 59 percent of young Latino men, and 41-percent of Asian male fourth-graders were functionally illiterate.
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