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"Free and reduced-price lunches are available to students determined to be in or near poverty.. This year, for example, students from a four-person household were generally eligible for free or reduced-price lunches if the household income was less than $40,793."

"Alianza hopes the hybrid model will help diminish the persistent achievement gaps between affluent and economically disadvantaged students and whites and minorities."

"A Public Policy Institute of California review of 14 recent studies shows that beginning kindergarten at a later age improves children's social and academic development and provides a significant boost to their test scores, especially for children from low-income families."

"Rep. Sheryl Williams Stapleton, D-Albuquerque, cast the dissenting vote. Stapleton, a former elementary school teacher, said she was worried that schools with the most impoverished students would not get the money necessary to make the retention program successful."

"It's really good, the counselor said, asking Lopes to join Rhode Island Educational Talent Search, one of five federally funded support programs intended to help low-income minority students get into college and stay the course through graduation."

"The preschool serves 80 children in Early Head Start and 46 in Head Start. Both programs are federally funded, and both target low-income families. Early Head Start serves pregnant women and children up to age 3. Head Start serves children ages 3-5."

"Both schools eliminated early-action programs several years ago as a way to open access to more low-income and minority applicants and remove some of the pressure and complexity of the process."

"This is an expensive, but effective program that must grow in coming years -- not only because it is worthy, but also because state law says all low-income children are entitled to it."

"The bills one sponsored by state Sen. Wes Hayes, R-York, the other sponsored by state Rep. Dan Cooper, R-Anderson would acknowledge for the first time on a statewide basis that children who live in poverty are more expensive to educate."

"Wake County Superintendent Tony Tata told school board members today that they need to address the problem of some teachers having low academic expectations for students who come from poor families."

"To be eligible, one household member must prove they receive at least one of the following government assistance programs: food stamps, Medicaid, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Low-income Home Energy Program, Supplemental Security Income..."

"Clinton went on to say that the school board changed direction because members thought student achievement had not improved enough under the discarded diversity plan. The school board leadership has attributed much of its opposition to the old plan on low achievement by low-income students."