County's former Public Health head spins a hard tale

“In Jacksonville, 50 percent of children live in single-parent families and 50 percent live in poverty.

Forty percent qualify for the free or reduced lunch programs in the public schools.

More than 30 percent of public school students start the school year in one school but finish in another and many aren’t prepared to read when they enter school.

In addition if you combine the number of Jacksonville’s children who are homeless, near homeless, in foster care or incarcerated, it’s the majority of the community’s children...”

Dr. Jeff Goldhagen, former Director of Public Health for Duval County, currently Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University of Florida College of Medicine; in Jacksonville, and Chief of the Division of Community Pediatrics at a recent speech to a Jacksonville Florida Rotary Club

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