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"Social Security and Medicare are not broken. They are successful, popular programs that protect America's elderly from poverty. Cutting them would be devastating."

"But students are chosen by a lottery of public school students. Most are low-income and without home computers, yet they are expected to manage their high school careers on a laptop."

"Scholar Academies operates Young Scholars, a charter middle school that serves about 200 low-income African American children in Philadelphia. According to its Web site, it uses an extended school day and school year to improve academic rigor."

"For-profit schools such as the University of Phoenix, DeVry University and Kaplan University... offer professional, vocational and technical training and serve a large number of minority, low-income and first-generation college students. But they face federal scrutiny and lawsuits..."

"Combee Elementary School is one of many schools seeking private help amid the orange groves of central Florida's Polk County, which has an unemployment rate of 12.1% and the fifth-highest rate of suburban poverty in the nation, according to the Brookings Institution..."

"This was a startling contrast to what people expected from such a school. Half of the students are low-income. The ethnic mix is 47 percent Hispanic, 27 percent black, 15 percent white and 11 percent Asian. Its building is a wreck, with an infestation of rodents and burst pipes..."

"The proposed district-run, or Horace Mann, charter high school in Salem is designed for students at risk of dropping out due to poor grades, poor test scores, or disciplinary problems. Many of the 50 to 100 students served would be teens facing personal issues such as poverty ."

"`There is the sense out there that the profession is under siege,' Patrick said. `But teachers are not the problem - poverty is the problem.'''

"Another was the release this week of a Harvard Graduate School of Education study saying that 43 percent of third-graders in Massachusetts read below proficiency. Two-thirds of the below-proficient readers are from low-income families."

"For-profit companies cater to lower-income and minority students, who are often unable to attend traditional schools, according to Harris Miller, president of the Washington-based Career College Association, which represents more than 1,400 for-profit colleges."

"Trommelen said this housing project will help satisfy Delanco's state-mandated affordable housing plan to provide more homes for low- and moderate-income residents."

"The group estimates that at least 15,000 children in Washoe County are living in poverty. Fifteen percent would be about 2,250 children."