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"The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, created in 2004 to give students from low-income families the choice and ability to attend private schools, fell victim to ideology when the Democrats who controlled Congress siphoned off support, eventually refusing to reauthorize it. "

"''I live in a homeless shelter,' Ms. Masondo said. Tears appeared in her eyes as she revealed how she pretended to have a home to return to after school, a family to look after her. 'I can't really have any friends.'"

"The move will result in slightly higher teacher salaries and tuition costs,... noting summer break will last nearly two months. Nativity School in South Los Angeles switched over to the extended calendar eight years ago while serving mostly low-income families in the inner city.""

"Eakin met performance benchmarks across the board on spring 2010 tests. Maplewood missed goals for low-income students and, in 2007, had a track record so poor that the state installed its own leader."

"But many other kids, especially those in low-income neighborhoods, are not. For those who are unfortunate enough to grow up in these areas, going to school is an ordeal, not an opportunity."

"Even so, evidence is overwhelming that children of single mothers -- particularly teen mothers -- suffer disproportionately high poverty rates, impaired development and low school performance."

"So it is chaos, yes, but a happy, loving chaos. Not the chaos fueled by drug addiction, poverty, joblessness and foster care that marked Ms. Perez's childhood in a Staten Island family of 10 brothers and sisters."

"A proposed state scholarship program that proponents say could help low-income students attend private schools also would help middle-income families and students already attending private schools, advocates said Monday."

"Without Social Security today, nearly half of all Americans aged 65 or older would be poor. With it, fewer than 10 percent live in poverty."

"How did Florida do it? Strong leadership and aggressive education reforms such as strengthening its charter school law... and introducing private school choice opportunities for students in need one for students with special needs, the other for low-income children."

"Children are admitted to Bright Beginnings, which does not charge tuition, based on skill screenings; those most likely to lag in kindergarten get first priority for seats. Most come from low-income homes, and some have parents who speak little English."

"Nearly half of the state's 2.1 million public school children came from families who were considered low-income during the last school year, as the recession nudged more families toward poverty."