AFSA President Diann Woodard’s recent column in The Huffington Post challenges our elected leaders to stop ignoring the poverty that haunts our schools. She writes, “Neither the ESEA nor any other federal policies address the rapid descent of a growing number of families into poverty. They offer no funding to improve learning conditions, and no equitable forms of evaluation for school leaders being forced to cope with the pathologies of impoverished communities, let alone supportive child health care.”