Educational Disparities in Marginalized Communities

In underserved and under-resourced communities and countries, marginalized people often find themselves excluded from programs aimed at raising education levels. They tend to have lower graduation and literacy rates. And insufficient funding is allocated to public primary education due to domestic governments in poor and middle-income countries being unable or do not allocate sufficient funding and a small percentage of external assistance going toward educational programs. 

Exacerbating these issues, children and youth in underserved communities and poorer school districts are too often not learning what they need to learn in school, and caught in situations that are not conducive to learning. Physical resources are limited, insufficient educators, children come to school hungry and do not have resources at home to help with school, some aren’t even able to attend school regularly to work and help with family income.