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"'Everybody tells me I'm crazy,' said Tony Lowden, executive director of Campus Clubs, which is using stimulus money to host an 11-week academic summer camp for low-income students in Macon. 'I'm crazy enough to want to help save kids' lives.'"

"According to Robert Carlisle, supervisor of the Title 1 program for Wicomico schools, that percentage determines funding for a variety of other efforts, including Title 1 -- a program that distributes federal funding to schools with a high percentage of... low-income [students]."

"Summer reading helps students still learning English retain language skills. Nearly 65 percent of students at Lawrenceville's Kanoheda Elementary, a campus of 1,000 with a poverty rate of 90 percent, live in homes where English is a second language."

"But serious questions have been raised about some of the major players in this rapidly growing industry. Critics charge that many for-profit colleges employ overly aggressive recruiting tactics targeting low-income students."

"Plaintiff attorneys say they want the court to require the Legislature and the governor to address unequal and inadequate conditions within the schools, disparate conditions that more often affect low-income and minority students."

"Not long after turning 18, and still in his junior year at Bodine High School for International Affairs, the onetime honor student found himself homeless - again. 'I never wanted pity from nobody,' Rodriguez said."

"On Aug. 13, Feingold, 80, will step down as president of Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly, a 45-year-old nonprofit with apartment complexes in Brighton and Newton that provide subsidized housing for low-income seniors."

"Groups representing low-income families sued the state of California Monday in the second major legal action alleging the government is failing to adequately fund public education. The complaint was filed... by... students representing low-income families."

"Mr. Goldberg, Mr. Rosen, Ms. Carlson, Mr. Cullen and Ms. Biggers count themselves lucky to be among the 4,500 selected by the nonprofit to work at high-poverty public schools from a record 46,359 applicants (up 32 percent over 2009)."

"Economists are trying to measure a home computer's educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households. Taking widely varying routes, they are arriving at similar conclusions: little or no educational benefit is found."

"But a local businessman... was so frustrated by the political opposition to what seemed like a sensible idea that he launched a privately funded alternative, the CHOICE Charitable Trust. The trust has provided scholarships for low-income families to have a private school option..."

"Studies suggest family problems, poverty and discouragement due to academic failure can contribute to the drop-out rate. Gender appears to have a mild influence on outcomes - 88 percent of Vermont girls graduate from high school compared to 83 percent of boys."