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"For low-income applicants to U.S. colleges, April remains the cruelest month. By early April, almost all admission decisions are known. Colleges shift from screening applications to wooing admitted students."

"Sixty-one schools with high poverty rates and low test scores are eligible for the grants. The state has given priority to 12 persistently low-achieving schools, including FIC at Axtell Park."

"`I learned about cilantro and different types of vegetables,' said Julieta Benitez, a fourth-grader. `I like it.' The program is aimed at low-income students who qualify for free or reduced lunches at their schools."

"Some low-income parents got vouchers that could be used to send their children to private schools."

"One piece of the plan advanced recently was the announcement of the possible sale of the McCarley Gardens low-income housing development along Goodell Street and Michigan Avenue to UB for $15 million."

"Last year, Gov. Jon S. Corzine called for more than 400,000 low-income residents receiving Medicaid assistance to pay up to $10 a month for prescription drugs. The co-payments were eliminated in the final budget."

"Educators also might be rewarded for working at low-income schools, but those decisions will be left to school districts and teachers unions."

"For the past eight months, the Long Island Power Authority and National Grid have been sifting through a list of nearly 30,000 seniors who applied for a low-income senior credit of $200. So far, they've processed just more than 19,000 claims."

"That Monday's protest took place in the diverse, largely low-income Miami-Dade school district -- the state's largest -- was enough to catch the attention of Gov. Charlie Crist, who has until Friday to sign or veto the bill."

"We have overwhelming data that levels of education are strongly associated with levels of health. The best way to reduce infant mortality is to educate the mother. We know also that a childhood in poverty poses a measurable, significant risk of poor health..."

"More than 60 percent of those students are attending a community college.... Community colleges, the least costly of Ohio's public schools, increasingly are attracting groups that need extra help to succeed -- low-income students, working adults, underserved minorities..."

"A teacher who delivers top test scores in a low-income neighborhood in a needed subject area such as math or special education can earn as much as $146,000 a year. The top salary available now is $87,000."