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"Students can qualify for aid through the federal lunch program based on family income, making the data a good indicator of poverty or economic well-being among families with schoolchildren."

"Like the Kirst-Bersin-Liu plan, the governor's proposal targets funding based on an unduplicated count of low-income students and English learners, and on the concentration of such students in a given district."

"Lynda Ellington believes a child can come from a loving family and live in a nice home but still be homeless. Ellington, the Rapides Parish School District's homeless liaison, said the number of homeless students in Rapides Parish is a major problem that only awareness and education can solve."

"Kids in poverty tend to move more frequently as their parents seek work. They might not have a computer at home or many books. They may lack the experience of traveling outside their hometowns. "

"A brainy homeless teen from Long Island who is up for a $100,000 award in the nation's premier scholastic science contest got something even better yesterday - a new home.Samantha Garvey, 17, and her family will be moving into a rent-subsidized, three-bedroom house in Bay Shore courtesy of Suffolk County."

"Kids in poverty tend to move more frequently as their parents seek work. They might not have a computer at home or many books. They may lack the experience of traveling outside their hometowns."

"School districts reap rewards for enrolling as many students as possible in the lunch program, in part because those numbers help determine funding tied to poverty levels"

"The data show that about half of the high-poverty schools spend less per student than their wealthier counterparts. In many cases, that's because their teachers are less experienced and paid less money."

"In 2010, as part of an effort to qualify for $700 million in federal Race to the Top grants, New York passed a law that called for a teacher evaluation system. Eighteen months later, no such system is in place."

"For the second consecutive year, Michigan ranked 30th among states in the well-being of children. Michiganders should be more disappointed with the lack of progress than relieved the situation isn't worse. The poor economy has given our state one of the highest poverty rates in the country."

"'Until third grade, children are learning to read. After third grade, they also are reading to learn,' said Ralph Smith, executive vice president of the foundation. 'When kids are not reading by fourth grade, they almost certainly get on a glide path to poverty.'"

"The aim was to reach kids 'who do not speak English as their first language; come from low-income families; attend low-performing schools in the district, as measured by the California Academic Performance Index; and whose parents did not graduate from college.'"