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"For instance, students coming from impoverished backgrounds often have a better chance at succeeding during their college careers if they see examples of peers who have done well once they entered higher education."

"Participants... discussed the recent decision by Congress to reduce the role of banks in making subsidized student loans... That's expected to yield $61 billion in savings over 10 years that will be used to increase the annual Pell Grants awarded to low-income students."

"'The post-Katrina changes had little impact on the integration of public schools in New Orleans..." the Tulane group said in a 14-page response to the report, which was authored by the University of Minnesota Law School's Institute on Race and Poverty..."

"The new zones would end Wake's long-standing practice of sending thousands of low-income Southeast Raleigh and downtown Raleigh students to schools in places such as North Raleigh and western Wake to promote diversity."

"These trends hold true for every class since the MCAS graduation requirement was imposed - the young people who feel the brunt of the negative effects of this standard are minority, low-income, and urban."

"He was in the first cadre of ninth graders who signed up in January 2007, when the venerable nonprofit announced College Connection, an intensive program designed to make sure that talented low-income students../ have the academic, social, and emotional skills they need..."

"Those sanctions include letting parents transfer their children to better-performing schools in the same district, offering tutoring for students from low-income families and restructuring the way the schools operate."

"Given that much of Texas' population growth will be among low-income families, the state needs to make sure that those families know that college can be within financial reach. Often, he said, poor families grossly overestimate the resources their children need."

"An Albuquerque Public Schools program that started 17 years ago to help homeless students now has a permanent home of its own. The Title I Homeless Project received about $400,000 of federal stimulus money to renovate a cluster of portables that now house a preschool..."

"One crucial element in all this can't be easily measured: attitude, both in teachers and students. Leaders like Rhee have insisted on hiring only teachers who believe that they can make big gains despite the drag on learning that comes from poverty."

"Head Start is a federally funded program that provides free preschool services to low-income children and their families. Abdalla said when he went early to register at his daughter's school, he found no room there for his son."

"Massage and beauty schools, online universities and other for-profit colleges in Georgia and across the nation are cashing in on federal stimulus spending, collecting $2.2 billion in tuition grants for low-income students, public records show."