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"The Education Law Center, which represents children in low-income cities, argued that it was because the constitution requires the state to provide children a "thorough and efficient education." "

"The San Francisco-based appeals court struck down that policy, siding with low-income families in Richmond, Hayward and Los Angeles that claimed that a disproportionate number of uncredentialed teachers were teaching in their schools."

"She visited one school in each borough, serving different grades, most of them with similar student populations: primarily black and Latino students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a snapshot of a system where minorities are the majority and poverty is pervasive."

"About 1,080 homeless children are enrolled in Manatee County schools. The course on homelessness was one of more than 100 offered to educators looking to improve their teaching techniques and strategies in their classrooms."

"Among children born into low-income households, more than two-thirds grow up to earn a below-average income, and only 6% make it all the way up the ladder into the affluent top one-fifth of income earners, according to a study by economists at Washington's Brookings Institution."

"Danielle attended kindergarten at Project HOPE School while living at Isaiah House. Project HOPE is an Orange-based school that provides education and other programs to homeless children."

"...Massachusetts lost fewer jobs than most states and maintained higher wages, all while avoiding a significant increase in poverty, according to 'The State of Working Massachusetts,' a report prepared by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, a nonpartisan think-tank..."

"Nationally, 52 percent of Hispanic students and 58 percent of black students are unable to earn a bachelor's degree in six years, compared with 40 percent of white students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics."

"Communities in Schools, which offers a variety of support programs for mostly low-income students, has worked with tens of thousands of Mecklenburg youths, many of them first-generation college graduates."

"Districts also received stimulus money for special-education initiatives and for programs to help students living in poverty. That money runs out this fiscal year. School officials hope for timely answers about the state's fiscal future when the legislature reconvenes next week."

"Irons is one author of a new 'budget blueprint for economic recovery and fiscal responsibility' that would spare low-income and moderate-income families from the 'drastic cuts' and some other austerity measures in the chairmen's plan."