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"Gorman noted that low-income, black and Hispanic kids in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, which has many schools with high concentrations of poverty, now outscore counterparts in Wake County, which has long assigned students for diversity."

"Every year, more than 1,000 Pinellas teachers ask to move to other schools, with some of the highest numbers coming from south county schools with high poverty rates. But this year, two schools in Dunedin and three in Clearwater also are at the top of the list."

"The elementary school is a site for Courage 2 Change, a summer camp for low-income and at-risk students. For two weeks in June and two weeks in July, 20 elementary and middle school students in the camp come to Dawson to get tutoring...'

"Schools make AYP when students at the school including students with disabilities, low-income students and minority populations meet goals in those three areas."

"The report, commissioned by KIPP, debunked the argument that the schools succeed by 'creaming' the best students from the districts they operate in. In fact, researchers said KIPP students are more likely to be low-income and black or Hispanic..."

"'I'm glad that MCPS is investing in this data,' he says. But he wants to see more of it, especially comparing the college success of its minority and low-income students and of those from other places."

"The Irving school district in many ways reflects the growth in suburban poverty across the nation.Visit Good Elementary School in south Irving, where 93 percent of the children qualify for free or reduced-price meals."

"The Shuttle-Bug operated between G and M streets SW... providing service to thousands of residents in that area. One of them, Barbara Tillman, said the shuttle had become 'the heartbeat' of the community for many low-income and elderly residents."

"As Newark schools prepare to enforce a stricter dress code this fall, some parents want to know why the school picked a little-known company to supply clothes for low-income students."

Topic(s): Aging, Health

"Washington-based EBRI continues to be at the forefront of sounding the alarm that we ought to be more aggressive in preventing people from falling into poverty in their senior years."

"Passing rates for black, Hispanic and low-income students largely went up this past school year but still continued to lag those of white students. For instance, 53.6 percent of low-income students passed the end-of-grade reading exam, up from 49.8 percent the prior year."