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"Obviously, business interests have a stake in an educated workforce, and it is going to take everyone pulling together to put a dent in problems of chronically low-achieving schools that tend to serve high-poverty and minority students"

"The new school board opposes mandatory year-round schools because they can make it difficult for families to plan vacations. The old school board opposed mandatory high-poverty schools because they result in academic genocide."

"One- and two-person apartments for low-income seniors who require personal care, medication management and other services."

"..[T]he Board of Education denied proposals from three major charter organizations that had sought to run newly built neighborhood schools, which would have included... special education students, foster children and low-income families."

"0 Number of competitive Cal Grants that Mr. Schwarzenegger proposes awarding to low- and moderate-income undergraduates in the future. In 2008-9, community college students received 73 percent of the 25,367 new competitive grants."

"Authorities filed felony charges last week against Thelma Johnson of Spencer. Johnson allegedly made 65 claims to a state program that reimburses some rent costs for low-income elderly and disabled Iowans, according to court documents..."

"Densely packed with triple-deckers, Central Falls calls itself 'a city with a bright future,' but the poverty rate has consistently been high and the budget low."

"Under Bassi's plan, low-income seniors 65 and older still could ride public buses and trains for free, but more-affluent seniors would pay half fare. Anyone making less than $27,610 a year -- or a couple making $36,635 -- would continue to ride for free."

"A large majority of recipients are low-income elderly and disabled people and families living beneath the federal poverty line, which is $22,050 for a family of four. But households with incomes up to 150 percent or even double the poverty line are eligible in many states..."

"...[T]he schools would have to waive some or all undergraduate tuition for households making up to $95,000. That high tuition/high financial aid model would preserve access for low- and middle-income students while ensuring that families who can pay more of their way, do."

"Indiana's Constitution requires the legislature to set up a 'general and uniform system of common schools.' In other states, lawsuits arguing school funding inequities have typically come from parents of children living in poverty who argue their schools aren't funded adequately."

"In a proposed change to the No Child Left Behind law, the Obama administration Obama administration would require states to adopt new academic standards to qualify for federal money from a $14 billion program that concentrates on impoverished students..."