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Poverty status of school-age children, and number and percent of children served under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Part B, from non-NAEP sources: By state, 2001 and school years 1990–91 through 2001–02
	Poverty status of 5- to 17-year-olds: 2001		Children (age 3 to 21) served under Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Part B
	Poverty status of 5- to 17-year-olds: 2001
	Number in poverty (in thousands)	Percent in poverty	Number of children: 2001–02 school year	Percent change: 1990–91 to 2001–02
State/jurisdiction	Number in poverty (in thousands)	Percent in poverty	Number of children: 2001–02 school year	Percent change: 1990–91 to 2001–02
Nation	7,891	15.1	6,407,418	34.6
Alabama	174	21.1	96,477	1.6
Alaska	14	10.3	18,017	22.2
Arizona	214	20.1	100,886	76.3
Arkansas	124	25.0	63,969	33.7
California	1,101	15.4	657,671	40.1
Colorado	90	10.5	80,083	40.2
Connecticut	58	9.6	74,016	14.6
Delaware	13	8.5	17,295	21.0
Florida	499	17.5	379,609	60.8
Georgia	301	18.4	178,239	74.7
Hawaii	32	14.6	23,526	78.6
Idaho	36	13.1	29,100	32.2
Illinois	342	15.3	306,355	28.1
Indiana	105	9.6	161,519	40.9
Iowa	32	6.1	73,084	20.4
Kansas	58	12.3	61,873	36.9
Kentucky	108	15.5	98,146	23.6
Louisiana	188	21.3	99,325	34.8
Maine	22	11.2	36,580	30.7
Maryland	73	6.8	112,426	23.2
Massachusetts	110	11.3	150,003	-3.0
Michigan	206	11.6	226,061	35.4
Minnesota	70	8.1	110,964	37.2
Mississippi	131	24.0	62,196	2.1
Missouri	108	10.7	141,524	38.8
Montana	22	13.7	19,262	12.4
Nebraska	39	12.5	43,864	33.9
Nevada	37	8.9	40,227	118.2
New Hampshire	16	7.1	30,270	54.0
New Jersey	124	8.9	228,844	26.2
New Mexico	85	24.1	52,225	44.9
New York	624	19.0	440,232	43.2
North Carolina	216	14.7	186,972	51.9
North Dakota	16	16.7	13,627	9.0
Ohio	294	15.0	238,547	16.1
Oklahoma	113	18.0	87,801	33.7
Oregon	87	13.8	76,129	38.0
Pennsylvania	257	12.7	249,731	13.8
Rhode Island	16	9.1	31,816	51.0
South Carolina	169	22.2	110,037	41.5
South Dakota	9	6.9	16,931	13.0
Tennessee	169	17.3	126,245	20.4
Texas	897	20.4	492,857	40.6
Utah	54	10.8	54,570	14.3
Vermont	9	9.9	13,886	13.2
Virginia	99	7.4	170,518	49.6
Washington	134	12.1	120,970	41.7
West Virginia	56	20.5	50,136	16.2
Wisconsin	111	12.1	127,035	46.1
Wyoming	7	8.9	13,286	18.6
Other Jurisdictions
District of Columbia	24	30.9	12,456	98.0
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institue of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, 2003 (NCES 2005–025), tables 20 and 54 (pp. 33, 74). U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Decennial Census, Minority Economic Profiles, unpublished data; and Current Population Reports, Series P-60, "Poverty in the United States," "Money Income of Households, Families, and Persons in the United States," and "Income, Poverty, and Valuation of Noncash Benefits," various years, and "Money Income in the U.S.: 2001," P60-213. Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Annual Report to Congress on the Implementation of The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, various years, and unpublished tabulations, and the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD), "State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary/Secondary Education," 2001-02.

Last updated 13 October 2005 (MM)

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