Claim: "The poverty level in" the Dallas school district "is one of the highest in the country, higher than New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, Detroit and Newark."
Fact-check: Dallas school board member says poverty among Dallas students is high and greater than in some other large, urban districts
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2012-12-05T00:00:00