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"Black, Hispanic and low-income students in Charlotte-Mecklenburg were more successful on high-school exams but less likely to graduate. The report cards package information that has already been reported in different formats and confirm trends that have been emerging..."

"One of the best parts of high school for sophomore Raymond Wayne is developing leadership skills and learning military routines through Battery Creek High School's Marine Corps Junior ROTC program."

"The temptation to equate childlike misbehavior with criminality and to haul out the locks and chains when a more child-appropriate punishment would suffice has become too great for some adults to resist."

"Raising the retirement age for Social Security would disproportionately hurt low-income workers and minorities, and increase disability claims by older people unable to work, government auditors told Congress."

"While 50 percent of white students and 55 percent of Asian students scored proficient or higher in reading, only 21 percent of African- American and Hispanic students did so. Twenty- three percent of low- income students of all races had proficient scores."

"His new area of interest: helping solve schools' money problems. In a speech on Friday, Mr. Gates who is gaining considerable clout in education circles plans to urge the 50 state superintendents of education to take difficult steps to restructure the nation's public education budgets, which have come under severe pressure in the economic downturn."

"Reading scores for the nation's 12th-grade students have increased somewhat since they dropped to a historic low in 2005, according to results of the largest federal test, released Thursday. Average math scores also ticked upward."

"More than 80 percent of KIPP's students are minority, more than 80 percent live at or below the poverty line, and more than 90 percent come from single-parent households... On average, when they enroll at the school, students perform two grades below their age level, he said"

"It would reduce benefits slightly to the middle class in later decades, according to a New York Times analysis, but low-income people would get increased benefits."

Topic(s): Aging, Economic Opportunity, Education, Health, Workers

"The report highlights the N.C. teacher allocation formula - a flat grant system that does little to provide districts such as CMS with money for teachers based on the number of students living in poverty."

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