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"UC Berkeley outshines other flagship schools in extending the welcome mat to low-income applicants: 33 percent of its students rely on Pell grants, compared with an average of 21 percent at 22 other flagships."

"A 2007 study by Carnegie Mellon University showed that in a group of low-income preschoolers, playing a board game with numbers, such as Chutes and Ladders, helped them improve their performance on four kinds of numerical tasks."

"The Jeanie Schmidt Free Clinic, a community-based organization providing health services to uninsured low-income residents in western Fairfax County, began its volunteer services in the cafeteria of Herndon Middle School in 2002."

"It's a new twist on philanthropy, with donors able to directly help low-income people save more, borrow less and work their way to financial independence."

"Greenfield school administrators will move onto other priorities on their stimulus wish list after the state denied their proposal for 'seclusion areas' in special education classrooms."

"The more federal land, the less opportunity to generate property taxes, said Todd Hauber, State Office of Education associate superintendent of business services. The Utah income tax is the primary source of funding for public education."

"A 30-year-old teacher with almost no administrative experience wants to start a charter with 80 fifth-graders, almost all low-income, in a church basement."

"Thirty years ago, a federal Pell Grant covered most of the cost of attending a four-year college; today it covers about a third, making it more difficult for low-income students to attend their states' flagship schools."

"'What's important is that students from low-income families know that this program will provide a path for them to go to college,' she said. Dream Weber is modeled after a Texas program and is the first of its kind to be offered in Utah."

"The highland city of La Paz, Bolivia, is a case in point. International donors are helping to finance the expansion of water and sanitation networks to low-income neighborhoods inhabited by primarily by Aymara Indians."

"If Pennsylvania gets $400 million, Philadelphia would get tens of millions, officials said. And state estimates say that, for example, a high-poverty district with enrollment of more than 10,000 would get from $3 million to $8 million..."

"The reality at low-income schools like F.C. Joyce, though, traditionally has been low parental involvement, educators say. Principal Torie England said she used automated phone calls, a newsletter and fliers to let parents know about the rally last week."