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"In impoverished neighborhoods where schools are bad, parents, voters, residents and community leaders don't make them better. Teachers do. I know of very few instances in which community leaders... brought people together to fix the schools and succeeded in doing so..."

"Families that bring in $30,000 or less will get a decrease of more than 5 percent, and the lowest-income families that pay tuition will get a decrease of more than 20 percent."

"In Arizona, proposed cuts include ending health coverage for 310,000 low-income, childless adults and 47,000 low-income children; laying off more than 2,000 employees and closing state parks, highway rest stops and motor vehicle division offices."

"Find a more-effective way to educate the 50 percent of state students who are poor enough to be eligible for free and reduced-price lunches. Low income is a proven risk factor for poor performance in school, research shows."

"By 2019, the number of uninsured would rise to 54 million, most of them low-income workers paying federal and state taxes to support health care programs for older people and the poor."

"At a recent hearing on the proposed turnaround, Pamela Olguin, attendance coordinator, said absenteeism was rooted in larger challenges: Homeless students, female students with babies who are on waiting lists for day care, guardians with disconnected phone numbers..."

"On Thursday, the board voted 5-1 in favor of maintaining the current approach by Access Missouri, designed to help those from low-income households and first-generation college students."

"Award qualifications have become more rigorous in recent years, state officials said. Schools must show that all students are making progress toward scoring proficient or better on annual state exams, and that low-income students' scores exceed state targets for two... years."

"An elementary charter school, which strives to give the children of migrant workers a future beyond the fields, is $200,000 closer to meeting a huge goal - adding a sixth, seventh and eighth grade."

"Free local bus and train rides would be restricted to low-income senior citizens under a measure a House panel approved Thursday to help bring in more money for transit agencies reeling from financial woes."

"But advocates and center operators said care for many of the 37,000 low- income participants -- who suffer from diabetes, brain injuries, dementia and other chronic conditions -- would cost the state even more money if the centers close."

"Currently, Wake has the goal of trying to balance the percentage of low-income students at each school. Supporters of the policy... say the policy is based on research showing that academic performance suffers at a school when it has too many poor children."