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"Students in local schools would continue to benefit from $12 billion in state support. That money, apportioned on the basis of enrollment, teacher seniority and local poverty, pays for core classes in academics."

"Sherman Denby, a science teacher at the Cherry Street School in Bridgeton, N.J., quietly goes out of his way to help his low-income students and their families."

"Yesterday, Mayor Thomas M. Menino ... officially kicked off an ambitious effort to combat poverty in a 5-mile radius in the heart of the city, where many of the turnaround schools are located."

"Schools in wealthier communities have resources... While urban school parents are shunned and judged, community factors like poverty and its attendant problems are ignored or discounted as irrelevant."

"The Bullitt Fiscal Court is considering reducing the nonprofit's rent ... from $200 per month to $1 per year ... The nonprofit community action agency helps low-income and elderly residents by providing meals, activities, training and transportation."

'''People don't think of the North Shore with families living in poverty,' said Martha Arntson, executive director of network. But, Ms. Arntson said, pockets of struggling families exist even in affluent areas."

"We are not arguing that this reform should be expected to overcome the harm caused by insufficient school resources or the ravages of poverty. But we... believe that high-quality schooling opportunities, coupled with the effort of the student, can... affect student success."

"Pace Academy of Atlanta is using star power to raise money for a new grant that will give low-income and minority teens a free private school education."

"In 2008, the county received 4,644 applicants for the exemption. In 2009, the applicants numbered 5,198. So far this year, another 900 low-income senior citizens have applied, according to Property Appraiser Alvin Mazourek."

"Why is this voucher program not needed? Because we have free public schools. Are low-income children discriminated against in our schools? No. Certainly not on the basis of low income. Then how did such a program with no sensible rationale get started?"

"Founded by ISU students in 2006, UNITE steers graduates of the Bloomington-Normal university's College of Education to careers at 'high needs' CPS schools with low-income student populations, said Lucille Eckrich,... UNITE's faculty adviser."

"An Orthodox rabbi, Dr. Lander was also an academic sociologist who specialized in the study of poverty and juvenile delinquency. His writings include 'Towards an Understanding of Juvenile Delinquency,' published in 1954."