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"Like roughly half of the district, the North Charleston school has a CORE team of school staff members who identify children who aren't doing well and find ways to help them. Like only four others in the tri-county area, Hunley Park Elementary has been recognized as a state Reward Schools for Progress. Qualifying schools were required to serve a majority low-income student population, and about 80 percent of Hunley Park's students fall into that category."

"The U.S. Department of Education reinstated the program's funding for the next five years. Upward Bound, which prepares low-income students for college, will receive just more than $414,000 from Sept. 1 to Aug. 31, 2017."

"Albuquerque Public Schools will cover the full cost of breakfast and lunch this year for about 7,000 low-income students who normally pay a discounted price for meals."

"Hannah's Treasure Chest, a Centerville-based children's charity, partnered with Sogeti USA and 12 other local business partners to provide school supplies for underprivileged children in the Dayton area."

"Educators closest to the classroom, in partnership with their local community, are best able to determine how to educate all students and reduce the achievement gap that now threatens the futures of English learners and students who live in poverty. When designing a weighted pupil formula, it's important that the weights given to students challenged by poverty or English learning be large enough to make a difference."

"Unacknowledged in the attack on public schools is a growing body of research showing a direct correlation between poverty and school performance. Poor people cannot afford private education, even with vouchers, and the distractions of poverty inhibit disciplined study habits and good test scores."

"These supplies mean so much to our schools and to the students,' said Orange County school Superintendent Barbara Jenkins. We ended last school year with nearly 5,000 students whose families were homeless, and that number will likely climb in the coming school year. Other families are struggling to make ends meet, so school supplies can't be their priority.'"

"So he did what any entrepreneurial fifth-grader would do: He founded Robots 4 Everyone, a nonprofit that provides a free robotics camp for at-risk or low-income kids. The goal is to foster a love of science and provide an escape route from boredom and poverty."

"Private success so often depends on grants, loans, subsidies and infrastructure provided by all of us.It also requires talented people, a resource that is sometimes in shorter supply than it needs to be. The rest of us have something to do with that as well. The congressman, Chaka Fattah of Philadelphia, introduced the bill that created GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs), almost 14 years ago. The program puts more low-income students on a track toward college and prepares them to succeed there."

"Students at high-poverty schools often require incentives, reminders and calls to parents to be persuaded to take exams, especially if they're on the brink of failing, said Project LIFT Zone Superintendent Denise Watts."

"SCARCE, or School and Community Assistance for Recycling and Composting Education, provides teachers and schools with supplies and books throughout the year. At the fair, the organization will have 12,000 books to give to students targeted at preschool children all the way through high school. It's helping them because it's low-income kids, so they might not have their own resources to go out and buy books,' Kelly Burda of SCARCE said. It's helping them with literacy because they're more likely to read if they have something they enjoy.'"

"Back-to-school costs are expected to increase this year, according to one index, but local corporations and nonprofits are stepping in to help low-income families equip their children for schools."