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"The $14 million program was created in 2004 by a Republican-led Congress. It provides $7,500 annual vouchers to low-income families to send their children to private school. "

"While AT&T's prices are competitive with major carriers, seniors living on a low income may want to consider applying for lesser-known carriers that offer free phones and limited calling service."

"Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools shuffled its lineup of high-poverty schools earmarked for extra help on Friday, but at a time of heavy budget cutting, those schools might well receive less additional aid than in years past."

"Jaime Escalante was the dedicated math teacher from Garfield High School in East Los Angeles who challenged his students from low income families to work hard and pass his AP calculus class."

"[T]he cascading combination of other financial pressures -including declines in state support and charitable donations, and an influx of low-income students-may soon manifest itself in new levels of austerity on college campuses."

"The result was the Boston-based group he founded: Families in Educational Leadership, or FUEL. [The] group has held 'savings circles'... with the goal of training low-income immigrant families on financial literacy so they can put away money for college."

"University of California students would take a nearly $55-million hit from reductions in Pell grants. A $20-million check promised for bringing a rail line closer to the L.A. airport would be taken back. Head Start cuts would eliminate about 14,000 slots for low-income children..."

"As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Texas was allocated $6.4 billion in federal funds in three areas - money for special education, schools with high percentages of poor students and stabilization funds."

"About 36 percent of students at Brewster Pierce qualify for the federal free and reduced lunch program. Despite a significant poverty rate, the school's performance is solid, especially when the scores for students who have been at the school for at least three years are teased out..."

"The problem is that getting first generation college students into higher education is difficult. Keeping them there through graduation or completion of their technical studies also is a challenge. Many come from low-income families."

"At LAUSD, the nation's second largest school system that grapples with a raft of low-achieving inner-city schools, conversions are a cause for dismay some of the district's star schools mostly located in a swath of affluent suburbs are breaking away."

"This de-facto segregation - and widening achievement gaps between white and minority students - has some advocates calling education the civil rights issue of the generation."