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"Rowen, which educates 450 students in kindergarten through fifth grade, is ahead of many city neighborhood schools; it met state standards and made 'Adequate Yearly Progress' for several years running. But 83 percent of its students are considered low income, and the school lost 15 staffers to the Philadelphia School District's $629 million budget gap this year."

"Federal lawmakers said during a national town hall meeting Wednesday that they are working to help foster children succeed in school, citing dismal statistics including a 50 percent graduation rate among foster youths."

"Rural populations tend to be low-income, elderly and disabled, and many small-town residents receive their prescription medications by mail. They worry that if their post office were to close, they would have to drive to the closest town with a post office or pay a neighbor to make the trip."

"Seventeen of the units were set aside for public-housing tenants and applicants, and 43 are low-income-housing tax credit units. 'I'm very happy here. I was living with my son before and that was fine, but this is my own space,' said Florine Magee, a resident in the senior-citizen building..."

"The students are overwhelmingly low-income Latinos, many of them children of immigrants who did not finish high school and work in blue-collar jobs. But several said those hardships have motivated them to aim for academic success."

"Stress must be a constant companion when you're 90 years old, poor and homeless, and you've been driving - heaven help us, Barnes still drives - all over the city looking for an affordable, safe place to lay your weary head."

"While third through fifth graders there are predominantly black and Latino and many meet the city's measure of poverty, the younger students in lower grades are increasingly white and middle class, and have not yet been tested."

"That is a triumph for a school that takes all comers and has the numbers to prove it - 30 percent of students are English language learners, 20 percent require special-education services, and 75 percent live below the poverty line."

"The campaign to raise the achievement of black, Latino and low-income students has been bumping along in this school system for so many years, it's begun to seem like smoke and mirrors."

"In its report on the high dropout rate in public high schools, titled "A Future at Risk," the Public Affairs Research Council makes the point that not only the dropout's future, but also the state's future is at risk."

"The number of low-income and Hispanic students continues to grow in Maine Township High School District 207 even though overall enrollment has slightly declined, according to a demographics report released this month."

"The concept behind the government-sponsored Early College School is to help low-income students succeed. The students must meet certain requirements, among them maintaining good grades, having good attendance and demonstrating proper behavior."