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"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."

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"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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"'If you tell people there's an increase in poverty in Columbus, they get that,' said Mark Real, president and CEO of KidsOhio. 'But this information is really striking to them. It shows that this is a shared issue.'"

"Highland school district saw its mobility rate and percentage of low income students rise this year, which, administrators say, is a sign of continuing hard economic times."

"There is a particular benefit to low-income, first-generation community college students, said Ryan Ross, director of the Academic Student Support and Education Transition Center at the Community College of Denver."

"The achievement gap between low-income and minority students and their peers is gaping. In the end, an astonishing 1.2 million students - more than three times the population of the city of St. Louis - fail to graduate from high school each year."

"Delgado-Olson is targeting what he sees as a clear and urgent gap in local schools: the lack of a system to ensure that all low-income children have the supplies they need to learn. He first identified the problem in 2007 while attending community meetings..."