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"The district could not afford to forgo the grant money, said Burlington schools superintendent Jeanne Collins. Nor could Wheeler - a school with many recently arrived refugees from Africa and other parts of the world, many students from deep poverty, and notably low test scores."

"A volunteer team from Rebuilding Together, a nonprofit that updates low-income seniors' homes with safety items such as grab bars and wheelchair ramps, is on the job in his mother's south Sacramento house."

"For homeless students living at the Missouri Hotel, access to computers often ended with the school day. There was nowhere close to complete online assignments, play educational games or look up a topic discussed in class."

"According to the federal government, among Washington's low-income black eighth-graders, only 8 percent have achieved eighth-grade math proficiency. Among the state's nonpoor white students, about half meet this standard."

"Meadowlane is one of only eight schools in Alabama recognized by the state Department of Education as a school where high poverty has not translated into low achievement."

"Test scores as a whole have risen rapidly, but some schools are performing abysmally, with others comprising a vast middle group, improving but still struggling to teach basic reading and math to low-income students who came in three, four, even five grade levels behind."

"The federal government has awarded a total of $1 million over five years to Santa Fe Community College to help low-income and first-generation students and students with disabilities finish their education."

"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."