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"Under the old application, half the money was to be awarded to districts based on their share of low-income students. Big districts would get the most: Cincinnati is up for a potential $9.4 million."

"In March, Congress terminated a huge, bank-based college loan program, replacing it with one run out of the Education Department, and redirecting $36 billion in bank subsidies into Pell grants for low-income students."

"'The standard online learning model proves impractical for low-income and minority students, most of whom do not have either the resources or adult support needed to achieve success,' the school's founders wrote in their charter application."

"But Dick Lavine, a senior fiscal analyst with the Austin-based Center for Public Policy Priorities, a think tank focused on issues affecting low-income Texans, said proponents of the freeze ignore the effect of inflation in the long run."

"Wake County's schools became more racially segregated over the past decade as the number of high-poverty schools increased despite the school district's nationally recognized diversity policy, according to a study presented Sunday at a national conference."

"The sleek new school to the south is Logan's replacement, a bright spot in an area roughed up by poverty, crime and low expectations. George Washington Carver Academy represents something Logan's leaders desperately wanted: a clean slate."

"Meanwhile, applications have jumped about 40 percent in the past 18 months at Experience Works, an Arlington, Va.-based nonprofit that provides federally funded employment retraining for low-income people over 55 years old in 30 states, including Georgia."

"A low-income tax credit for people who earn less than $20,000 has been eliminated. The bill will likely affect many seniors. The Senate voted 40-9 and the House voted 97-62 Thursday to approve the measure, which was originally intended to offset sales taxes paid by the poor."

"Now in its 10th year, the program has awarded more than $500 million in scholarships to low-income minority students, he said."

"Recognizing that foster children are more likely to fall behind, drop out and end up homeless or in jail, the program aims to keep these children from riding off the education track and into what one expert termed the 'prison pipeline.'"

"Thirteen years earlier, Rossi had signed on to a little-known state program that allows low-income senior citizens to defer their property taxes until they either sell their homes or die."

"The Community Montessori School would be an elementary school for low-income students run by Crossway Community, a nonprofit group in Kensington."