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"The number of poor children had already grown by 2.1 million in 2009 over pre-recession levels, with continuing high joblessness among parents raising concerns that poverty will continue to worsen for some time."

"Before studying at Harvard, Salazar taught middle school English in an impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood as a member of Teach for America. She believes her early childhood experience in Head Start put her on the path to academic success..."

"Tanella Mahoney brought her month-old son, Kendall, to her graduation. Formerly homeless, she knows well what a difference it makes to have a diploma and a stable place to live. "If you are going to do something, don't give up in the middle," said Mahoney, 22..."

"'Coddling the irresponsible,' they say, 'only worsens the problems it was meant to solve,' a curious statement that seems to imply that poverty will cure itself. From this premise, all cuts to social programs are justified."

"As the new CPS leadership tries to drive that rate even higher, they'll be overhauling high schools, trying in part to address how to engage those students struggling with broken families, violence and poverty."

"According to the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey released in 2009, 4,857 people in the county were living below the poverty line, 7.4 percent being residents 60 and older."

"Replicating good charter schools and rejecting bad ones sounds eminently reasonable, but it's far easier said than done. For decades, educators have been trying to scale up high-achieving, high-poverty schools, but success often comes down to hard-to-duplicate factors..."

"For now, only the Racine Unified School District meets all four criteria to qualify for a voucher program, but more than 200 districts meet at least one of the criteria. The criteria include district poverty levels, district property values, the amount a district spends per pupil and the size of the community."

"Other investigations found that for-profit recruiters heavily target low-income and minority students, veterans and people whose parents have never gone to college. Enrollment at for-profits has increased fivefold in the past decade to nearly 2 million."

"Any school in Illinois where at least 40 percent of students are needy will be able to serve free meals to all children, regardless of family income, starting this fall as part of a pilot program offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture."

"Reduced to its simplest terms, the rationale behind the attack on teachers is this: Children born to single, semi-literate, poverty-stricken 16- or 17-year-olds can, with the right teachers, reach the same level of academic skill as children born to parents such as Ben's and Emma's."

"Eli, 24, wants to build a solid, stable environment for her son to grow up in, and the Fox Cities fits the bill. Theirs is a story of homelessness and how they received help through Appleton's homeless education program."