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"If we want to reduce the number of children living in poverty, we need to begin making different choices. If the Kids Count data released on Monday tells us anything, it may be that we're not even having the right conversations."

"Michigan has about 182,000 children ages 3 to kindergarten from low-income families who will benefit from the federal grant, State Superintendent Mike Flanagan said."

"A Southold charity is recruiting families for an in-home teaching program for impoverished parents with young children."

"More children in Delta, Schoolcraft, and Menominee counties are growing up in families who are struggling to make ends meet, according to new figures released Tuesday through the 2013 Kids Count in Michigan report."

"Jones is one of thousands of students in Maryland who have experienced homelessness. The number of K-12 students identifying as homeless in U.S. public schools hit a record high 1.2 million during the 2011-2012 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Education."

"Wilson, who married WSU President M. Roy Wilson on Dec. 7, couldn't believe it. Soon after, she decided to find ways to ease the challenges homeless students face so they could get their degrees and turn their lives around. With the support of her husband and others, Jacqueline Wilson intends to champion the cause of homelessness on campus and in Detroit as Wayne State's first lady."

"The state's new formula for funding schools is a tremendous gift for districts that enroll large numbers of disadvantaged students. But it's not quite the giveaway some of them had expected."

"Federal investigators are looking into whether former leaders of the District's Options Public Charter School committed Medicaid fraud by, among other things, exaggerating the needs of its disabled students and paying students with gift cards to ride school buses, according to several people familiar with the criminal investigation."

"But schools rely heavily on self-reporting to count homeless students, and unaccompanied homeless teens, like Kemp, often evade the same authorities who would count and connect them with services."

"Oregon State Board of Education members said Thursday they want to look at phasing in a new way to calculate the number of students living in poverty, because of concerns raised about how it would affect school budgets."

"A record 2,200 students attending Solano County public schools were homeless this past year, a nearly 40 percent increase from the previous year and a nearly four-fold increase since 2010-11, the Solano County Office of Education reported."

"The second study, conducted by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, reveals that poverty not race, ethnicity, national origin or where you attend school is the best predictor of college attendance and completion."