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"The plan ensured that schools inside Raleigh didn't bear full responsibility for educating low-income students, while also guaranteeing that families priced out of affluent neighborhoods still had access to strong schools in other parts of the county."

"The highest graduation rates were females, at nearly 78 percent, and whites, at nearly 76 percent, according to the data. The lowest rates were students with disabilities, at 45 percent, Hispanic students, at nearly 63 percent, and poor students, at nearly 65 percent."

"The charters would also get transportation money and reduced-lunch programs but, until the latest version, would not have helped students from low-income families overcome barriers to enrolling in charter schools."

"One of the most debated recommendations of the independent library task force - to make saving branches in low-income areas a top priority - was reaffirmed in the group's final meeting Tuesday."

"As politicians in Washington debate how much money to cut from the Head Start preschool program ...16 of the kids in that program Tuesday morning built a model city... Since 1965, Head Start has taught millions of American kids from low-income families..."

"At Evergreen Community Charter School, 41 percent of our families qualify for free and reduced-price lunch with 23 percent below the poverty threshold; at ArtSpace Charter School, 49 percent qualify, with 31 percent below the poverty threshold..."

"Then there is the group about which we deficit pandas care most: the poor and working poor. They are at the greatest risk from a fiscal crisis, not merely because of the prospect of losing jobs."

"Pell Grants were just one of many programs to help low-income people that were to be cut under HR 1. According to the National Organization for Women, the bill also proposed cutting, among other things, the health care reform act passed last year; teen pregnancy prevention grants..."

"Last week a House committee voted to restore Washington, D.C.'s opportunity scholarship program, which lets kids in persistently failing schools attend a private school of the family's choosing."

"Families living in poverty continuously cope with immense and complex problems largely on their own - challenges as basic as keeping food on the table, preventing utilities from being turned off and making the next rent payment."

"Stripped to its basics, the battle to reform public education in low-income communities is a struggle against isolation."

"About 41 percent of schoolchildren in Fond du Lac qualify for free or reduced-price meals - an indicator of poverty levels in the community. Superintendent Jim Sebert said 3,000 out of 7,300 students are eligible for subsidized meals."