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"For minority and low-income students, the results were especially encouraging. The number of minority students earning qualifying scores increased an astounding 825 percent, the second highest increase in the nation."

"Too many people are ready to write off a few generations of students, especially in poverty plagued cities like Detroit. When we can even entertain a proposal by the emergency financial manager to spike class sizes in Detroit to 60...a lot of us have lost our souls."

"Cincinnati Public, the state's third-largest school district, struggles with a nearly 70 percent poverty rate among its more than 33,000 students. Many families lack insurance or transportation so the school nurses often serve as the primary source of health care..."

"Claudia Nagle, executive director for Diakonia, a homeless shelter in West Ocean City, asked commissioners to consider increasing funding for the organization...'The likelihood may be slim, but we also have the numbers and figures to support the request, [said Nagle].'"

"Instead, Ms. Sherwood, 25, joined up with Teach for America, the program that puts top college graduates into the nation's most poverty-stricken schools, deciding that the best way to make a difference would be, as she put it on Monday, 'to be there, where the rubber meets the road.''"

"Imani opened last fall in the Pine Hills area. Nearly all of its students have been African-American children from low-income families. Former teachers...called the school little more than a baby-sitting service."

"The Republican governor is proposing expanding a Wisconsin school voucher program that currently is available only to low-income students in Milwaukee. He wants to expand the program to all of Milwaukee County and phase out the low-income qualifying ceiling."

"Sixty high school seniors from low-income families in Butte County are wanted for a new program that will turn them into teachers. Recruitment has already begun, said professor Al Schademan of Chico State University's Department of Education."

"Where a drab low-income housing project now sits, leaders of the University at Buffalo, part of the State University of New York system, envision glass-and-steel biomedical buildings. They propose hiring hundreds of new professors and thousands of staff members."

"'He has seen poverty at a whole different level, and I think that has given him a fresh perspective on its impact on education,' said George Nicholas... 'Poverty is a factor that can impede a young person's ability to get an education, but it can't be an excuse.'"

"...[T]he Consortium on Chicago School Research is expected to release a report revealing that while neighborhood poverty and crime affect school safety, they are not the most important factors."

"''Same smoke, same mirrors, same attempt to blame others for his decision to lay off thousands of teachers,'' said Michael Mulgrew... Some council members also denounced the mayor's handling of financing for child care for low-income families."