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"Students from low-income families who graduate from high school scoring in the top testing quartile are no more likely to attend college than the lowest-scoring students from wealthy families."

"Facing a $30 million budget deficit, the district is contemplating increasing class sizes by four. Others say charters are elitist and promote segregation. Charter schools aren't required to provide busing for low-income students, and most don't."

"In a Charlie Rose interview, Weingarten referred to teachers as 'powerless.' As a group? Hardly. 'Powerless' describes low-income students trapped in miserable schools."

""It's a time of critical change for older women," Wyn said. "Not only are they at risk of new and complex health conditions, but as they near the age of retirement, their insurance status may change too.""

"Diane Ravitch, perhaps America's most influential scholar on education, has reversed her stance on issues such as standardized testing, school choice and the No Child Left Behind Act."

"Only in the last couple of weeks have city officials and advocates for the elderly become fully aware of Gov. David A. Paterson's decision because it was not the typical budget reduction that becomes part of the annual jousting between Albany and New York City."

"In particular, Duncan discussed the Education Department's plan to issue guidance letters to schools across the United States, as well as its intention to conduct numerous compliance reviews around issues like discipline and equal access to educational opportunities."

"The children at School 19 and in Katie Fuller-Nave's classroom come to school with the deck stacked against them. About 95 percent live in poverty, some of them in extreme poverty. And as many as a third don't speak English as their first language."

"We encourage the Board of Education to prevent schools of concentrated poverty in its plans and to push for new planning ordinances that will increase the supply of good, affordable housing throughout the county."

"The unions argue this will chase teachers out of the profession. There will be more demands, more tests, more stress, less job stability and a disincentive for teachers to tackle low-income classrooms."

"The Latino community's growing anxiety over the board's decision highlights Prince George's uneasy transition from a majority-black county that has been a magnet for affluent African Americans to a county increasingly characterized by low-income Latino immigrant enclaves."

"Money would be distributed to districts based on numbers of low-income students and most heavily to schools that have been the lowest-performing on standardized tests in recent years."