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"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.'"

"The county's school districts counted 7,254 homeless children and youths among their students last year, a jump of more than 50 percent since 2005."

"It is unclear if he has the right to do this, but thank goodness someone wants to do something about this situation where 82 percent of public schools may fail No Child Left Behind targets this year."

"Fed up with years of mismanagement, chronic waste and poor results, the federal government wants the City of Detroit out of the business of overseeing millions of dollars in Head Start funds that are supposed to provide early education to 7,000 children."