1. East St. Louis (Life on the Mississippi)-Explains the statement that in East St. Louis the city is set up for adults and NOT for children. Overall, safety and poverty appear to be major issues for children in the city of East St. Louis. Many families are said to live on less than $7,500 a year and the city is described as essentially a dump. Due to the lack of public services, such as garbage collection, residents are forced to throw garbage all over the city. Raw wastewater is a big problem and also flows into the children's playground. Not only is safety itself an issue, but children are not a priority, making the city more appealing to adults rather than children, which is ironic given that the public education system is San Antonio, Texas. What does it mean to say that poorer districts in San Antonio pay more taxes and receive less funding? What is the “Foundations Program” and why has it failed to solve the problem of inequality in San Antonio? Since San Antonio's education funding is based on property values, poorer districts obviously receive less funding. However, poor districts are required to pay the same tax rate as wealthier districts, but are unable to adequately fund their schools, while wealthier districts are comfortably able to fund their schools and are much less affected by the tax rate compared to the lower districts. - income counterparts. The Foundations Program was created to give districts freedom to fund their schools. The idea behind this program was that if a district wants to improve its schools, it can fund them itself instead of relying on the state. The problem is that while this program worked well for wealthier districts, poorer districts still did not have adequate funding to improve these schools. One way to solve this problem would be for all districts to work together and create partnerships in order to create a large fund to help all schools in said