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"Statistically, there is a near-perfect relationship between the poverty level of the student population at a high school and its tendency to lose students before graduation day."

"[Advocates] say overcrowding could be reduced by moving some suburban kids to less-crowded center-city campuses. Absent that, they say the results will be disastrous if class sizes go up in high-poverty schools."

"The meals are distributed by request across the county every Thanksgiving. Most of the recipients are low-income seniors with limited mobility or those who don't have family in the area."

"Poverty and disease steal the lives that war spared. 'Sudan is the worst in the world in maternal health,' said Atem, pointing to statistics showing that mothers die in 2,000 of every 100,000 births."

"'I wouldn't miss it for the world,' Gollier said. 'It's one of the funnest things I do.' Under Gollier's guidance, students worked with organizations that aid the local homeless population."

"The transfer requirement, in which school systems must allow students to transfer from high-poverty schools that repeatedly fail, has created similar problems in the past for struggling school systems across the country, including New York City and suburban Atlanta. "

"The organization is donating 6,000 salad bars to schools, mostly in low-income neighborhoods, over the next three years as part of Obama's Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools initiative."

"Morgan represents the south suburbs, where school poverty levels tend to be low and PTAs often raise tens of thousands of dollars. CMS's 'weighted student staffing' formula pays for extra teachers based on student poverty, so low-poverty schools end up with fewer teachers..."

"But she has never been particularly passionate about private schools despite her zeal to increase the choices available to low-income parents. So, when she accepted a seat on the board of the Children's Scholarship Fund last week, I wondered if it signaled a new direction."

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"Research has shown time and again that the single most powerful predictor of student performance is poverty. And it is increasing. The Census Bureau reported in September that the share of residents in poverty climbed to 14.3 percent in 2009, the highest level since 1994."

"The state fund that provides grants for low-income students to go to North Carolina colleges and universities is running low. The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Sunday that the fund gave students more than $210 million this year."