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"Jones is one of thousands of students in Maryland who have experienced homelessness. The number of K-12 students identifying as homeless in U.S. public schools hit a record high 1.2 million during the 2011-2012 school year, according to the U.S. Department of Education."

"Wilson, who married WSU President M. Roy Wilson on Dec. 7, couldn't believe it. Soon after, she decided to find ways to ease the challenges homeless students face so they could get their degrees and turn their lives around. With the support of her husband and others, Jacqueline Wilson intends to champion the cause of homelessness on campus and in Detroit as Wayne State's first lady."

"The state's new formula for funding schools is a tremendous gift for districts that enroll large numbers of disadvantaged students. But it's not quite the giveaway some of them had expected."

"Federal investigators are looking into whether former leaders of the District's Options Public Charter School committed Medicaid fraud by, among other things, exaggerating the needs of its disabled students and paying students with gift cards to ride school buses, according to several people familiar with the criminal investigation."

"But schools rely heavily on self-reporting to count homeless students, and unaccompanied homeless teens, like Kemp, often evade the same authorities who would count and connect them with services."

"Oregon State Board of Education members said Thursday they want to look at phasing in a new way to calculate the number of students living in poverty, because of concerns raised about how it would affect school budgets."

"A record 2,200 students attending Solano County public schools were homeless this past year, a nearly 40 percent increase from the previous year and a nearly four-fold increase since 2010-11, the Solano County Office of Education reported."

"The second study, conducted by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, reveals that poverty not race, ethnicity, national origin or where you attend school is the best predictor of college attendance and completion."

"They may have dorm rooms to sleep in during the school year, but many college students are technically homeless -- with no place to call home when classes aren't in session."

"Universities aren't required to track homelessness, so the exact size of the problem is unknown. But more than 33,000 students nationwide declared themselves homeless on federal student aid applications last year, the first time the question was included."

"The Annie E. Casey Foundation today released the findings of its latest Kids Count policy report, ���The First Eight Years: Giving Kids a Foundation for Lifetime Success.� ���The First Eight Years� outlines how early development in key areas of well-being are imperative in finding success during the elementary years, and what impact poverty can have on that development."

"Should additional support for retirees get first priority, given that the rich can be tapped only so many times - and that economic privation in this country is disproportionately common among the young, not the old? The poverty rate for seniors in 2012 averaged 9.1 percent, much lower than the rate for children, which was 21.8 percent, and lower than the overall U.S. rate of 15 percent."