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"Under Minnesota's new accountability system, only 42 schools have been identified as 'Priority,' or needing special attention. But a Pioneer Press analysis of the data shows at least 71 other schools had similarly low scores but won't get that label -- or help from the state to improve."

"Clearly, there is a correlation between the district's poor academic showing overall and the economic situation of most of its students. At the same time, poverty doesn't entirely explain why New Mexico's Public Education Department gave Santa Fe Public Schools a preliminary grade of a C -- and a number of its schools D's and F's -- and the district's high school graduation rate is at 56.5 percent."

"Among the selection criteria is a priority for the Department to consider whether applying districts have formed a coherent and sustainable partnership with public and private organizations, which could include community-based child care and early education in the district's area."

"'Those are the employees that need the most; those are the employees that are suffering the most, the retirees who are suffering the most,' he said. 'There are individuals working for the state in the merit system who are at the poverty level.'"

"Lamenting that millions of American children receive ''a third world education,'' Mitt Romney on Wednesday called for poor and disabled students to be able to use federal funds to attend any public, private or online school they choose."

"Mitt Romney launched a blistering attack Wednesday on President Obama and teacher unions, saying they are blocking crucial revisions to education and are hurting children, particularly young Latinos and other minorities."

"Its Edgewood Middle Campus, a fourth-through-eighth-grade middle school, has a larger portion of special education students than the District's average. Seventeen percent receive services and are showing progress."

"As Romney took the stage, a sign appeared behind him, 'A Chance for Every Child.' Later, his campaign distributed a 35-page white paper that is among the most in-depth policy prescriptions so far. The broadest change involves funding for special needs and low income students."

"'We try to get them in as early as possible to see what a school district of high poverty looks like - what kinds of things the kids do, what kinds of needs they have - before they ever come to us as student-teachers,' Aldine Superintendent Wanda Bamberg said."

"Two state lawmakers are taking the Maine Department of Education to task for rescinding nearly $1 million in grant money that had been awarded to four districts, a decision one local school official said tarnishes the department's credibility."

"More importantly, would both of those children emerge from high school equipped with the mental agility and technological capabilities needed to progress through higher education or job training and into the workforce?"

"Allenbrook, an urban school with high levels of poverty, had become too used to poor performance, outside evaluators of the school determined. Low expectations for students were pervasive, according to the district's "Quality Review Report" on the school."