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"According to new poverty measures from the Census Bureau, 15 percent of people ages 65 or older nationwide are living in poverty 6 percent higher than previously thought."

"Poverty rate is the biggest factor, I believe, that impacts graduation rates,' said Kewanee District 229 Superintendent Christopher Sullens. There's a lot of reasons for that. Students in low-income families don't always have the resources to help them out at night or provide extra services, and so it falls on the school to do.'"

"Senate Appropriations Chairman Luke Kenley said he and other GOP legislative leaders have 'lost confidence' in the accuracy of the federal school lunch program as an indicator of poverty. There's no accountability in the federal program,' Kenley said."

"In the Philadelphia area, teachers see themselves as first responders in the ongoing emergency of poverty. Many say that if they falter, they fail the children."

"Those recommendations tie in well with another recent report, by Caroline Hoxby and Sarah Turner, that suggested ways to get high-achieving, low-income students to attend elite schools that might serve them better; research by Alan Krueger and Stacy Berg Dale found that the economic benefit of selective schools is greatest for poor students. The work follows up on research Hoxby and Christopher Avery did showing that elite colleges frequently miss on high-achieving, low-income students."

"A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis of the Census Bureau's poverty estimates for seniors is frightening. Nationally, 9 percent of people 65 and older live in poverty. But when the poverty measure adds in other supplemental information, such as out-of-pocket medical costs or the high costs of housing, 15 percent of seniors are living in poverty."

"Higher education today, the report says, is stratified between four-year colleges with high graduation rates that serve largely affluent students and community colleges with often dismal graduation rates that serve mostly low-income students."

"For the last 10 years, the College Success FoundationTacoma a public-private organization has assisted promising low-income students by providing them with the mentoring and counseling they need to negotiate the college application process. It also helps them locate scholarships, and then continues mentoring and counseling them until they've completed their college degree. Careful research has documented its success in getting disadvantaged students into and out of college."

"A report released yesterday by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation examined poverty among seniors for 2009 through 2011 as lawmakers consider changes to government programs that many rely on, including Social Security, food stamps, Medicare and Medicaid. Cuts in services or added out-of-pocket expenses would really hurt folks who are barely getting by now,' said Diana Kubovcik, clinical services director for the Central Ohio Area Agency on Aging."

"The share of seniors living in poverty at least doubles in 12 states under the U.S. Census Bureau's supplemental' poverty measure, according to an analysis released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation."

"The report by the New America Foundation, a research group based in Washington, D.C., analyzed U.S. Education Department data showing the net price' the amount students pay after grants and scholarships have been exhausted for low-income students at thousands of colleges nationwide for the 2010-11 school year."

"In L.A. Unified, schools with as few as 40% low-income students had been receiving dollars, although at a lower funding level. Last year, with relatively little notice, L.A. Unified raised the minimum to 50%, which added to shortfalls at schools already enduring recession-related cuts. LACES was one such campus, with 46% low-income students last year."