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"Those were the images of local poverty that businessman Doug Pitt couldn't shake. The result with early pledges of help from Brad Pitt, the Jolie-Pitt Foundation and businessman Jim D. Morris was Care to Learn."

"City colleges, or junior colleges, as they were once known, were not always a way station for students who were behind in reading and math. The average student in junior college used to be a kid from a working-class or impoverished family who had to work..."

"I don't see it. I am particularly uncomfortable with any plan that lets 14-year-old ninth-graders choose a vocational track, as used to happen with low-income kids."

"Although the college graduation rate of Bridges students is better than the national average of about 40 percent for students from low-income families, the gift should help increase their chances of success, Swartz said."

"The system hopes to teach students at these high-poverty schools about nutrition and fitness, train their parents to live healthier and allow teachers there to start wellness programs together."

"Five years after the storm, the Mississippi Center for Justice estimates more than 5,000 households affected by the storm still are without permanent housing. Low-income and minority residents near the coastline are most acutely affected..."

"Even on the Island, local educators said, the indirect impact of the new federal money could be far-reaching. Moreover, a handful of Island districts with high poverty rates stand to gain substantial new federal cash."

"Half of the $250 million will go to school districts, based on their number of low-income students... The rest will be spent on statewide efforts. Massachusetts was among nine states and the District of Columbia to prevail in the second round of the Race to the Top competition..."

"The house, which sits on a particularly bleak block choked by weeds and vacant buildings, wasn't theirs, but it was shelter in the neighborhood where they'd grown up. The siblings are part of a disproportionate number of sick and elderly living in blighted buildings since Katrina..."

"When it comes to poverty - a contributing factor for dropping out of school - the majority of those affected are single parents. Thirty-seven percent of single moms and 17.5 percent of single dads are in poverty, whereas just 6.7 percent of married couples are in poverty."

"The ultimate goal of the program is to break the poverty cycle, but some of the other side effects include lowering the high school dropout rate, reducing the number of children in at-risk situations and lessening the number of students repeating grades, DeMelo said."

"Torcivia, a Teach for America alumna who had taught special education at Miami Central Senior High, said she founded Rise to provide new opportunities for low-income students in South Dade."