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"Kate Bishop, co-director of Project DREAM (Developing Resiliency through Education, the Arts and Mentoring), said the majority of families in the district are considered low- income, and it's hard to count on them for donations."

"Some also face a different dilemma: trying to meet demand from low-income Latino Catholics who are unable to afford tuition. Last year alone, some 162 cash-strapped Catholic schools closed."

"After all, research shows schools with high numbers of low-income students don't fare as well academically as those in more affluent areas."

"It's that steely determination you get when you've taken one step out of poverty and refuse to go back to that dark and desperate place."

"It began providing services about two years ago and has about 200 members who generally pay annual dues of $530 for individuals and $800 for households; about 30 low-income members pay less."

"Low-income families with infants and toddlers and pregnant women can soon take part in early childhood programs not previously offered in the Salem area."

"Hutchison praised KIPP Aspire, a high-achieving charter school that posts some of the highest test scores in Bexar County while serving a mostly low-income, minority population."

"But most of that money will be gone by the end of the school year, leaving them as vulnerable as ever to the antiquated system of tying school budgets to property taxes, which automatically puts low-income urban or rural children in a hole."

"Health advocates couldn't be happier to have a popular first lady adopting childhood obesity as her cause. They're also keenly aware of how difficult the problem will be to solve."

"She rejects the idea that Oregon lacks qualified people of color to lead committees, serve in office or otherwise shape public policy. Members of minority groups need to lead discussions on poverty, discrimination and schools, she said."

"With a careful sequence of courses, including ninth-grade algebra, and attention to skills like note-taking, the early-college high schools accelerate students so that they arrive in college needing less of the remedial work that stalls so many low-income and first-generation students."

"But scores on standardized state tests lag well below the average of the Fremont public school system in almost all subjects -- a fact Ms. Alaiwat ascribed to the number of students who come from low-income families."