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"The D.C. Council's education committee on Monday unanimously approved a bill that aims to provide the city's public schools with additional money to help low-income students and others at risk of academic failure."

"Teacher merit pay. It's one of those perennially popular policy ideas that, historically, hasn't worked very well."

"You know poverty when your dinner for a few days until the next food stamps come in is buttered crackers or grape jelly on dough gods,' which are flat-tasting pancake-type things made of fried flour and water. I hated them, even doused in sugar, and longed for real pancakes."

"It's one of those puzzles of poverty with health impacts on children. Three recent studies add to mounting evidence that poverty can exact a lasting toll on a child's mental and physical well-being, with stress representing a key pathway."

"A report released Tuesday by an Ohio tax policy expert examined the impact of poverty on school spending and flipped on its head the conventional notion that urban schools continue to spend more and more and produce no better results."

"The Salem-Keizer School District could get an extra $4.1 million under a proposed plan to change how state officials calculate the number of students living in poverty."

"In the richest country in the world, the poorest among us are children. Forty-two percent of African American children and 37 percent of Latino children are born poor and they're likely to stay poor. The 16 million children living in poverty suffer worse education, health and job outcomes, making it even harder for them and their families to break out of their circumstances."

"The eight-hour session dealt with two big issues: What to do about the beleaguered iPad project, and whom to favor in passing out federal funds earmarked for low-income kids."

"Once seen as sexist and outdated, the all-male educational model has been resurrected to serve New York City's poorest boys, a group feared to be more likely to go to prison than to college."

"State and local social service advocates are calling on New York to simplify the food stamp application process for seniors, citing a study that indicates about 82,000 Nassau and Suffolk adults over the age of 60 are eligible for the aid but are not applying."

"More than two dozen local schools face reduced funding next year as the Los Angeles school district funnels more federal money to campuses with a higher percentage of low-income students."

"Want to boost the number of low-income Hispanic students who graduate from high school and go on to college? Then find a way to get their parents on board first."