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"Senate budget writers have also included $26 million in the state budget to expand full-day, 4-year-old kindergarten for children living in poverty."

"Indeed, not since President Johnson's War on Poverty has our nation truly committed to eliminating structural economic inequality. Many of our state-based education and school-funding policies exacerbate tax-based inequities, creating a class-based schooling system in which schools with the fewest resources are often concentrated in communities of color or those with high rates of poverty."

"Understanding the mysteries of the Web can lift a veil dividing generations, Kamber said. What happens when someone gets an iPad in their hands I felt like things were passing me by, and now I feel like I'm part of it.'' In the District, the program selected low-income seniors at high risk of being disconnected from friends and family."

"The report, Working Hard, Left Behind, found that the state has the largest number of adults without a high school diploma or equivalent and ranks last among states in the percentage of low-income working families in which neither parent has a college education."

"A new report released Wednesday cautions that the lack of higher education among California's low-income families could further hurt the state's economy over the next decade."

"With attention diverted to the failed gun control effort, comprehensive immigration reform and sequester politics, Obama's universal preschool program hasn't received the full weight of a White House push since he introduced it during the State of the Union address and traveled to suburban Atlanta to tout it two days later. "

"The N.C. House voted Tuesday to lower income thresholds for the state's pre-kindergarten program, limiting free enrollment to North Carolina's poorest families. The new cutoff for would be right at the federal poverty line in most cases."

"Part of the challenge for low-income students is that they lack of information about college admissions. For example, low-income students may assume that they cannot afford to attend highly selective universities farther from home. But the data show that less selective colleges often offer less financial aid. Counter intuitive as it may be, the out-of-pocket costs and loans required to attend a top university can be substantially lower than the costs for attending a less academically competitive institution."

"Wichita schools have set a record that no parent or teacher wants to see. As of midday Monday, educators and social workers had identified 2,251 homeless children attending Wichita schools this year."

"More than a quarter of Kentucky seniors - 27 percent, federal figures show - have had all their natural teeth extracted, ahead of only West Virginia and Tennessee. And 53 percent of Kentucky adults have had at least one permanent tooth pulled. A shrinking number of dentists across the state take Medicaid, and more than half of Kentucky adults have no dental insurance. Waits at some safety-net clinics can stretch to half a year, and a mobile dental service run by Louisville's health department recently stopped when its dentist left."

"A new scholarship program at Wilmington University aims to help academically qualified homeless students from Delaware's public school districts. The university will provide $1,000 each academic year to supplement the financial aid of the students, who can use the money for books, supplies and other necessities."

"It's a tough trade-off that has education reformers looking hard at the traditional school schedule, experimenting with ways to expand available learning time to better match learning needs, especially for low-income students whose families can't provide the enrichment activities middle-class kids benefit from during after-school hours."