America's unequal school systems

America has some really great schools that are well funded with encouraging staff. This is usually because the community donates money to the school, but in East st. Louis that is not the case. The book Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol, describes the unfortunate situations of the children attending school there. The best high school in the area "has 110 students in four classes - but only 26 books."(37) That is for their history class.  There are around 28 students in one class and 5 of those students must share 1 book. That is horrible, not even the most basic supply like textbook is provided for the students. How can the children succeed? How will the escape from the horrible life of violence and poverty?