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"Principal Sharon Lawson isn't surprised that her Pasteur Elementary School was highlighted by the state as an example of success against the odds. She says the Detroit school, where 80% of students live in poverty, enjoys an extensive outreach effort from community groups..."

"Gov. Corbett made an unusual and unexpected appearance Tuesday afternoon at a closed-door meeting of Senate Republicans to shore up support for a school-voucher bill to help low-income students attend the schools of their choice."

"The measure, which has drawn both fervent support and opposition, would make low-income students eligible for vouchers toward their tuition at a public or private school outside their district."

"'We hope AVID helps everyone see kids of poverty or ethnic diversity as kids who can go to college. We want to get it into the mindset of students, administrators and teachers, that kids from poverty and minorities have college potential.;'"

"Next, Gonzalez was informed that the three free books that each of his school's students was entitled to -- under a nonprofit program to promote literacy in poor communities -- had never arrived."

"It's clear that the school system is failing to meet the needs of low-income parents and students. We need real educational reform for everyone. "

"Delaware's Department of Education has much at stake in salvaging Stubbs, an urban school of black and high-poverty students with traditional poor results on state standardized tests, into a new learning model focused on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)."

"Kent Misegades, a director of businessman and Republican donor Robert Luddy's Thales Academies, says low-income students could benefit from the proposed tuition tax credit, which could be used for after-school tutoring or other purposes as well as daily instruction."

"Cerf said that only 22 percent of incoming high school freshmen in Newark ever graduate with a diploma, and even then 'it's not even a real degree.' One in five children from low-income families in Camden can read proficiently, he said."

"Nearly four in 10 Georgia high schools are dropout factories --- schools in which the number of seniors is routinely 60 percent or lower than the number of freshman three years earlier.Such schools tend to serve high proportions of students of color and low-income students..."

"Teach for America - the nonprofit agency that places recent college graduates in impoverished and struggling school systems - is expanding into Kentucky for the first time."

"...[S]chool-level data showing how voucher students performed on the same test taken by Wisconsin public school students is only fair. By that comparison, voucher students (who are all low-income) performed the same or worse as MPS students who qualified as low-income."