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"New SAT details released Thursday had some Georgia school districts bragging about eager students and hardworking teachers, while others were left to explain how disadvantages such as poverty dragged down their scores."

"When federal funding cuts took place this year, thousands of low-income children and their introduction to education through Early Head Start and Head Start programs were affected nationwide."

"A new book called Reign of Error' whose author, Diane Ravitch, is in the Golden State for a couple of days tries to convince us that fine schools are good enough for our children. Simply put, fine schools will not prepare our children for life and careers in this global information age."

"Anyone involved in education knows the main cause for all of our educational shortfalls is and always will be poverty. Nothing short of a miracle will ever trump poverty's death grip on educational failure."

"The group that administers the SAT has begun a nationwide outreach program to try to persuade more low-income high school seniors who scored high on standardized tests to apply to select colleges."

"She referred to the 112 Education Foundation, which for the past five years has raised an average of about $101,000 per year to bolster the district. Among other uses, the money is allocated as grants for teachers with innovative classroom ideas and used to bring in authors for readings. It also helps to support the school district's growing number of low-income students, which this year has risen to almost a quarter of the student population."

"School report cards released last month showed a near straight-line correlation between poverty and state test scores, according to data released Monday by several Ohio education groups."

"While independence may become more challenging with age, a little assistance can go a long way in keeping people safely in their own homes. Alabama's Medicaid program should make this a priority in its spending for long-term care."

"Coachella Valley Unified will issue iPads to all 19,000 students -- preschool through high school -- by November. A tablet rollout of this scale would be a hefty undertaking for any school district, but it is especially ambitious in Coachella Valley Unified, which estimates that about 90% of students live in poverty."

"Students in certain cities across the country can now eat free school meals regardless of family income as part of a new, experimental federal initiative."

"The poverty rate for students in Jasper County schools is also 86 percent. The per capita family income in the entire county is just under $18,000, well below the government-designated poverty level of $23,550 for a family of four. This is very troubling because it is very well established that the number one predictor of classroom achievement is family income."

"The Justice Department has challenged my state in court for having the temerity to start a scholarship program that frees low-income minority children from failing schools. In other words, Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder would rip children out of their schools and handcuff them to the failing schools they previously attended."