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"The D.C. Council gave its tentative but unanimous approval Tuesday to a bill that would funnel extra dollars to public schools serving low-income students and others at risk of academic failure."

"No child has ever chosen to be poor. Children have never caused the poverty that defines their lives and their education."

"A stigma of shame stalks government health care for the poor and could affect the education children receive in school."

"For many students at America's elite colleges, these are as much a part of university life as pulling all-nighters and complaining about dining hall food. But for low-income students, these are not only unaffordable luxuries, but part of a topic that can be more taboo than sexual orientation: the size of their wallets."

"More students across the state and in Howard County are living in low-income households and schools are finding ways to accommodate those students."

"The D.C. Council's education committee on Monday unanimously approved a bill that aims to provide the city's public schools with additional money to help low-income students and others at risk of academic failure."

"Teacher merit pay. It's one of those perennially popular policy ideas that, historically, hasn't worked very well."

"You know poverty when your dinner for a few days until the next food stamps come in is buttered crackers or grape jelly on dough gods,' which are flat-tasting pancake-type things made of fried flour and water. I hated them, even doused in sugar, and longed for real pancakes."

"It's one of those puzzles of poverty with health impacts on children. Three recent studies add to mounting evidence that poverty can exact a lasting toll on a child's mental and physical well-being, with stress representing a key pathway."

"A report released Tuesday by an Ohio tax policy expert examined the impact of poverty on school spending and flipped on its head the conventional notion that urban schools continue to spend more and more and produce no better results."

"The Salem-Keizer School District could get an extra $4.1 million under a proposed plan to change how state officials calculate the number of students living in poverty."

"In the richest country in the world, the poorest among us are children. Forty-two percent of African American children and 37 percent of Latino children are born poor and they're likely to stay poor. The 16 million children living in poverty suffer worse education, health and job outcomes, making it even harder for them and their families to break out of their circumstances."