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"Groups representing low-income families sued the state of California Monday in the second major legal action alleging the government is failing to adequately fund public education. The complaint was filed... by... students representing low-income families."

"Mr. Goldberg, Mr. Rosen, Ms. Carlson, Mr. Cullen and Ms. Biggers count themselves lucky to be among the 4,500 selected by the nonprofit to work at high-poverty public schools from a record 46,359 applicants (up 32 percent over 2009)."

"Economists are trying to measure a home computer's educational impact on schoolchildren in low-income households. Taking widely varying routes, they are arriving at similar conclusions: little or no educational benefit is found."

"But a local businessman... was so frustrated by the political opposition to what seemed like a sensible idea that he launched a privately funded alternative, the CHOICE Charitable Trust. The trust has provided scholarships for low-income families to have a private school option..."

"Studies suggest family problems, poverty and discouragement due to academic failure can contribute to the drop-out rate. Gender appears to have a mild influence on outcomes - 88 percent of Vermont girls graduate from high school compared to 83 percent of boys."

"But limited English proficiency, poverty and family obligations would keep many of those young people from fulfilling the proposed law's requirements for becoming a legal resident."

"Fewer low- and moderate-income high school graduates are attending college in America, and fewer are graduating."

"She said the district will only serve the neediest of preschoolers. She has a list of more than 20 considerations when deciding which children to accept. Some of those include family poverty level, education of parents and the number of caregivers in the home."

"Uk Do Lee, 81, a retired inventor from South Korea, said he had been trying since April to apply for subsidized medical coverage for low-income older people. The first thing he told a caseworker at one of the agency's offices... was, ''Korean -- no can speak English...''

"Whittle is one of 29 patients who received cataract surgery... Mission Cataract donates one day of surgery to people without the means to pay. To qualify, applicants must be a U.S. citizen without insurance and at or below the national poverty level."

"The school opens next month in a storefront in uptown Charlotte's South End. The first class consists of 18 fifth-graders, all from low-income homes, with the school expanding to grades 5-8 in the next four years."

"Two Fairfax supervisors... threatened to vote down the county's $3.3 billion budget this year because of the money, or lack thereof, for low-income school programs. About half of the county's budget is allocated to the 170,000-student school system."