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"More of the children attending schools in metro Detroit are living in poverty, a trend pronounced not just in urban areas but also in some of the tri-county's wealthier areas. Between 2006 and 2010 -- a period marked by a recession that rocked Michigan more than most states -- 19 school districts in Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties saw increases of more than 100% in the number of poor children."

"Each designation requires schools to take some level of action. Schools in need of improvement that receive federal funding for low-income students must offer students tutoring and the chance to transfer to a better-performing school."

"Many illegal immigrant parents work long hours in low-wage jobs, sometimes more than one job. New research on very young children cited in the Harvard study showed that the undocumented parents' difficult work conditions ''contribute substantially to the lower cognitive skills of children in their families.'"

"Researchers have linked not reading over the summer to achievement gaps between low-income students and their wealthier peers. But studies indicate "reading loss" doesn't affect just those students."

"Local efforts to get top educators into struggling high-poverty schools, provide extra aid for the neediest students, and identify and reward the most effective teachers caught the attention of the panel of judges and data-crunchers who selected the winner."

"The decline has led some commentators to embrace demographic determinism -- the idea that the verbal scores of disadvantaged students will not significantly rise until we overcome poverty. But that explanation does not account for the huge drop in verbal scores across socioeconomic groups in the 1970s."

"Because 76 percent of the children in care at Day Nursery are low-income, Pearson said many of the families using the facility receive subsidized care through a reimbursement program available at Texas Workforce Solutions."

"Historically, our school boards have tried to make all schools strong by limiting the percentage of low-income children in any one school (low income highly correlates with low academic performance and higher teacher burnout). This has been done primarily through the magnet program, which allows affluent suburban children to be voluntarily bused into high-poverty areas."

"The original threads of community paramedicine trace back to places like Nova Scotia, which began experimenting with the idea around 2000 when a doctor who had served two remote islands off the Canadian coast retired; paramedics were recruited to fill the gap. Around the mid-2000s, San Francisco, and later San Diego and Washington, D.C., among others, began sending paramedics into homeless populations, aiming to reduce 911 calls."

"Her daughter, 11, was growing up in the high-poverty neighborhood without her. The choice was obvious: Go back to be a better mother and get a job. Temptation has threatened to envelop Blevins."

"'There is money in California. There is an opportunity to save this university,' said Island, who said higher tuition would especially harm UC's growing population of minority and low-income students. In other action Thursday, the regents approved hefty incentive awards and pay raises for eight UC financial and medical center executives."

"In 2010, 78 percent of the Saginaw School District's 8,041 students received free or reduced-price lunches, based on household income. But some students skipped meals, not wanting to be known as a kid from a low-income family, said Board of Education member Norman C. Braddock."