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"For most students, the cost of a semester's worth of bus rides will be $185. If families have more than one bus rider, they will pay $135 for each additional child. Students eligible for free and reduced lunches will be charged $100 per semester. 'We really don't know how many will pay,' Deputy Superintendent Mark Youngs said."Trustees agreed to spend about $500,000 to offset reduced prices for low-income students and families with multiple riders."

"A few days ago, the school system in the nation's capital announced the firing of 206 teachers for poor performance, using an evaluation system that most negatively impacted teachers at schools in the city's most poverty-ridden neighborhoods."

"Falls schools generally have a large and diverse student population, so each subgroup must make adequate yearly progress for the school to pass. But smaller and more homogenous schools can skate by with a few minority or low-income students scoring below expectations."

"With a number of those students needing the extra help that Head Start would provide, Stocks and other administrators felt they had a winning hand. The program was launched in 1965 to provide education, health, nutrition and parent involvement programs to low-income children and their families."

"The state Department of Health Care Services reported that 30 percent of Sacramento County children ages 2 to 4 in low-income public health programs in 2009 were overweight or obese."

"Thus it is disturbing to note that in the debt ceiling debate, funding for Pell Grants remains a bargaining chip rather than a commitment to our aspiring but low-income youth."

"'I agree that IMPACT is working exactly the way it was designed, and there are some flaws in the design,' he said. IMPACT puts teachers who work in challenging, high-poverty schools at a disadvantage, making it difficult for them to get high scores, he added."

" 22,000: Boulder County's estimated early childhood population, from birth to age 5. One in four: Estimated number of children in Boulder County living below the poverty line."

"Other suits challenge the state's plans to freeze enrollment in its health-insurance program for low-income Arizonans, as well as a merger of the Biomedical Research Commission with the state Department of Health Services."

"Deal told the Athens Rotary Club that he is "seriously looking at consolidating" the federally funded Head Start program for young children from low-income families and the state's lottery-funded pre-kindergarten program."

"The school's early start program costs about $10,000 for materials and staffing. It is paid with federal money for schools where more than a third of students are low-income, said Willi Webb, Title I director for the Wake County Public Schools System."

"Still, the closure of the only middle school in San Francisco's impoverished Bayview neighborhood has upset some parents. 'You just pretty much broke up the whole community,' said PTA President Sheronda Perkins, whose twins just finished sixth grade. 'It was like a close-knit family.'"