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"Anyone involved in education knows the main cause for all of our educational shortfalls is and always will be poverty. Nothing short of a miracle will ever trump poverty's death grip on educational failure."

"The group that administers the SAT has begun a nationwide outreach program to try to persuade more low-income high school seniors who scored high on standardized tests to apply to select colleges."

"She referred to the 112 Education Foundation, which for the past five years has raised an average of about $101,000 per year to bolster the district. Among other uses, the money is allocated as grants for teachers with innovative classroom ideas and used to bring in authors for readings. It also helps to support the school district's growing number of low-income students, which this year has risen to almost a quarter of the student population."

"School report cards released last month showed a near straight-line correlation between poverty and state test scores, according to data released Monday by several Ohio education groups."

"While independence may become more challenging with age, a little assistance can go a long way in keeping people safely in their own homes. Alabama's Medicaid program should make this a priority in its spending for long-term care."

"Coachella Valley Unified will issue iPads to all 19,000 students -- preschool through high school -- by November. A tablet rollout of this scale would be a hefty undertaking for any school district, but it is especially ambitious in Coachella Valley Unified, which estimates that about 90% of students live in poverty."

"Students in certain cities across the country can now eat free school meals regardless of family income as part of a new, experimental federal initiative."

"The poverty rate for students in Jasper County schools is also 86 percent. The per capita family income in the entire county is just under $18,000, well below the government-designated poverty level of $23,550 for a family of four. This is very troubling because it is very well established that the number one predictor of classroom achievement is family income."

"The Justice Department has challenged my state in court for having the temerity to start a scholarship program that frees low-income minority children from failing schools. In other words, Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder would rip children out of their schools and handcuff them to the failing schools they previously attended."

"There's an increasingly common ritual at suburban schools on Fridays. It has nothing to do with football games or pep rallies. Instead, more and more kids are picking up bags of food to make sure they don't go hungry over the weekend."

"The Justice Department has challenged my state in court for having the temerity to start a scholarship program that frees low-income minority children from failing schools. In other words, Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder would rip children out of their schools and handcuff them to the failing schools they previously attended."

"That's the game in the summer for many homeless parents - trying to persuade your friends or family to let you stay with them ���just until hypothermia,� when the city is bound by law to house everyone. The shelters start taking families again, and the population at D.C. General crawls back up to 600."