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"Cherry Hill is preparing to scale back rent control, prompting fears among senior citizens that they soon could be priced out of their apartments and forced to move to less expensive suburbs."

"American students in grades one through nine reportedly lose one month of learning, on average, during a typical three-month summer break - which is often referred to as the "summer slide" - and research shows this loss is most pronounced in kids from low-income homes."

"Sampson was part of a group of people who attended an informational meeting Monday about the state's Student Scholarships for Educational Excellence program at the Wilborn-Dempsey Multipurpose Resource Center in Alexandria. It was one of a series of meetings hosted by the Black Alliance for Educational Options to educate parents in low-income families about the program."

"To maintain their numbers, schools will have to recruit high-schoolers who might not otherwise attend college - and that will mean, among other things, reaching out to minority and low-income groups."

"Pritzker said he also is interested in helping grow the Denver-based Nurse-Family Partnership, in which a nurse periodically visits low-income, first-time moms at their homes. He also cited the Fussy Baby Network, run by Chicago's Erikson Institute, which operates a hotline for parents whose infants are excessively crying."

"Of the 388,338 children who live in West Virginia, 40,872 live in extreme poverty, and 128,000 are part of the supplemental nutrition assistance program, according to data released in January from the Children's Defense Fund."

"The bars have been a part of Chute Middle School since its construction in 1966 and are intended to protect students from the outside world, according to officials. But some students and parents say the bars have affected the way the outside world views the school, which is located in a south Evanston neighborhood that has a larger percentage of low-income and minority students than areas served by the city's other two middle schools."

"The California Department of Education denied grant applications from about 60% of Fresno County high schools wanting to continue or expand after-school programs. No school in Central Unified, Sanger Unified or Clovis Unified got new funding for the 21st Century programs, a federally funded program for high-poverty, low-performing schools."

"'I'd finally hit rock bottom after so many years, and I had (to change) or I would die,' she said. 'It was a pretty easy choice ... (because) I'd pretty much lost everything.' Bell found her salvation at The Haven Shelter, an Idaho Falls shelter for women and homeless families."

"Starting this fall, thousands of poor and middle-class kids will get vouchers covering the full cost of tuition at more than 120 private schools across Louisiana, including small, Bible-based church schools."

"To pass, students had to score at the 'satisfactory' or higher 'advanced' level. Districts with greater percentages of low-income students tended to perform the worst. The highest scores came on the biology test, with 84 percent passing in HISD and 97 percent passing in Clear Creek, for example. The Texas Education Agency is expected to release statewide results Friday."

"Because drug dealing doesn't last. Thug life has no retirement plan. And because the best antidote to poverty is education. I plan to say as much at an awards celebration this Thursday evening to a group of Chicago public elementary school students in a program called 'It's So Cool To Be Smart' - which seeks to promote college, and encourages and rewards student achievement while also strengthening 'a culture of student success within schools.'"