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"Overall, the number of 3- and 4-year-old children enrolled in the state's early childhood education programs decreased from 21,963 to 5,700 between 2008-09 and 2009-10. The current program serves 3- and 4-year-olds from low-income families."

"Every woman regardless of age, ethnicity, race or marital status should ask themselves one question this Mother's Day: Why is the Republican plan to solve the nation's debt and deficit crisis going to push me closer to poverty in my older years?"

"The Republican budget would also transform Medicaid, which pays for nursing homes for low-income residents, into a grant program to states, raising the possibility that states, under budget pressure, would cut coverage."

"There is no effort to privatize education in Indiana. As I mentioned, we need to give parents options that best suit their family's needs. All children learn differently. Education scholarships can help do that for families at or near poverty level incomes."

"While Keller district kids pay an average of $2.25 for the standard lunch choice, the district receives $2.72 for each free lunch for qualified low-income students. The district also gets 26 cents for each paid lunch."

"On a conference call with reporters, Barnett said cuts to Ohio's public preschool program were so severe that he questioned the priorities of state policymakers amid the recession and rising poverty."

"Walker is proposing expanding the voucher program that currently is only available 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."

"Tenth-grade passing rates for the graduation test happen to be the basis for calculating a school's 'performance index,' and so were enough to earn South a B... As the experience of most high-poverty urban schools shows, changing those numbers is difficult."

"Five years ago, in pursuit of my passion to end educational inequity between kids in poverty and their higher-income peers, I left my home state of Kentucky. After turning my tassel in Rupp Arena, I headed from Lexington to Louisiana to join Teach For America"

"Saquan lands at MS 223 because his family has been placed in a nearby homeless shelter. (His mother fled Brooklyn out of fear that another son was in danger of being killed.) At first, he is so disruptive that a teacher, Emily Dodd, thinks he might have a mental disability."

"Some in the educational establishment want to excuse the numbers, blaming poverty as a reason. But if poverty were the leading determinant..., then the Appalachian regions with the highest concentrations of child poverty should have the highest rates. That's not the case. "

"But those experiences didn't prepare the Capital University freshman for the challenges the poor face. During the past several months, Crandall learned what it is like to be homeless, penniless and so hungry that she dreamed about stealing food."