Will Success Spoil A Poverty Program?.

Criticizes the decision to reduce the funds for the basic adult education program in Houston, Texas which offers reading, writing and arithmetic classes to poor people in the city. Reason for the decision of the superintendent of schools in Houston to abandon the program; Claims of the Office of Economic Opportunity and the Office of Education on the agency responsible for the budget cuts; Overview of the donation and fund-raising campaigns to support the program; Impact of the decision on the city's poor and uneducated people.