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"Claudia Nagle, executive director for Diakonia, a homeless shelter in West Ocean City, asked commissioners to consider increasing funding for the organization...'The likelihood may be slim, but we also have the numbers and figures to support the request, [said Nagle].'"

"Instead, Ms. Sherwood, 25, joined up with Teach for America, the program that puts top college graduates into the nation's most poverty-stricken schools, deciding that the best way to make a difference would be, as she put it on Monday, 'to be there, where the rubber meets the road.''"

"Imani opened last fall in the Pine Hills area. Nearly all of its students have been African-American children from low-income families. Former teachers...called the school little more than a baby-sitting service."

"The Republican governor is proposing expanding a Wisconsin school voucher program that currently is available only to low-income students in Milwaukee. He wants to expand the program to all of Milwaukee County and phase out the low-income qualifying ceiling."

"Sixty high school seniors from low-income families in Butte County are wanted for a new program that will turn them into teachers. Recruitment has already begun, said professor Al Schademan of Chico State University's Department of Education."

"Where a drab low-income housing project now sits, leaders of the University at Buffalo, part of the State University of New York system, envision glass-and-steel biomedical buildings. They propose hiring hundreds of new professors and thousands of staff members."

"'He has seen poverty at a whole different level, and I think that has given him a fresh perspective on its impact on education,' said George Nicholas... 'Poverty is a factor that can impede a young person's ability to get an education, but it can't be an excuse.'"

"...[T]he Consortium on Chicago School Research is expected to release a report revealing that while neighborhood poverty and crime affect school safety, they are not the most important factors."

"''Same smoke, same mirrors, same attempt to blame others for his decision to lay off thousands of teachers,'' said Michael Mulgrew... Some council members also denounced the mayor's handling of financing for child care for low-income families."

"Poverty levels, on the other hand, are measurable. The end of the state's Earned Income Tax Credit will push more families below the poverty line, even with the $25 per child credit that was restored as part of the compromise."

"'People who come to this country legally have dreams as well, and we need to support them.' Nereida Avendano, chairwoman of the Latino Roundtable of Southwestern Illinois, said the Illinois DREAM Act puts an end to 'a waste of talent' that perpetuates a cycle of poverty."

"Ciulla said the new board won its right to run the system based on votes from parents frustrated about frequent reassignment of their own children and their perceptions that the busing-based diversity policy wasn't working for low-income children."