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"Wichita will not participate in a new program that would offer free meals to every student regardless of family income at least not this school year, officials said."

"In too many inner-city neighborhoods, schools are dead-ends. Instead of equipping poor children with the skills they need to escape poverty, bad schools lower their expectations and sink their hopes."

"For several years, early childhood professionals have thrown around the number 30 million words. That is the difference between the words children from high-income families hear versus the number children in poverty hear."

"Idaho struggles with the image that it appears at the bottom of many data rankings when it comes to education, and there is another data set to add to the list. The Annie E. Casey Foundation shows Idaho at No. 47 for preschool participation, and Canyon County's numbers are even lower than the state as a whole."

"After 15 years as a K-8 school, Sugar Creek Charter School is adding high school. And its leaders are trying to avoid the path of some of the nation's most lauded college-prep charter schools. Charter chains such as YES Prep, Uncommon Schools and KIPP have earned a reputation for getting low-income minority students into college. But preparing them to finish college is another matter."

"It is well known that in the United States, women and children in low-income families have significantly higher death rates than women and children of affluent families. However, new research shows that we have a well-established and evidenced-based program that can reduce those higher death rates."

"This fall, the number of low-income Florida children attending private schools through the state's voucher program is set to expand. Through the same program, hundreds more children with disabilities can tap into their own new pool of public education money."

"Montgomery schools have experienced a major demographic shift over the past decade. Forty nine percent of students are black or Hispanic. More than a third of the student population is eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Most minority and low-income students live and attend school in the eastern part of the county, and their schools for the most part have the lowest test scores."

"Last year, the DuPage Community Foundation awarded $75,000 to the Wheaton-Warrenville Early Childhood Collaborative, a partnership made up of the school district, family services, and a number of other local agencies. Since then, the program has organized outreach events for more than 200 families and education workshops have been held for 108 early childhood providers in the Wheaton Warrenville area, officials said. [��_] Estimates show that about 6,400 children under age 6 in DuPage County live in poverty and the rate of child poverty has more than doubled in the past decade, according to the Governor's Office of Early Childhood Development."

"The Johns Hopkins University, for example, has partnered with the city, state and Annie E. Casey Foundation to invest $1.8 billion in East Baltimore over 20 years. The aim is to create a revitalized mixed-income neighborhood where new housing, retail, dining, public education and child care facilities, supported by science and technology jobs, supplant largely abandoned housing, high crime and infant mortality rates, and a poverty rate twice the city's average."