One major factor that affects low-income students from being prime for them to go to college is the funding they receive. Funding is a big factor in decide what programs a school is going to get but as well as if the school is going to succeed. The more funding a school receive the better the chance are that the students will succeed. The fewer the funding the school receive the lower the chance that the student will highly succeed in school. In the online article, “The Gap Between Rich and Poor Schools Grew 44 Percent Over a Decade”, by Jill Barshay, showed evidence that low-income schools are receiving less funding. Barshay says that “Poor schools are getting increasingly short-changed by the states and localities that fund them. The richest
