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"Yet two recent documentaries both critical of urban public school districts -- The Lottery and Waiting for Superman -- illustrate the frustration of low-income families whose hopes rest on a lottery system."

"In oral arguments in the decades-long case over whether the state's low-income districts have adequate funding, the justices repeatedly cited the state's economic crisis as a reason to hold off on ordering additional money for school districts."

"The court in 2009 gave its blessing to the formula, devised under former Gov. Jon Corzine, which sends more money to districts with children with higher needssuch as those in poverty, with disabilities or who know little English."

"Low-income students make up 97 percent to 99 percent of the student body at the four schools.Most students at the high school come from within its boundaries, according to the district. "

"As a result, the infant mortality rate among participant families is well below the national average, despite their poverty rates -- an outcome that Van Ginkel finds more exciting than playing golf. And so, "I'm going to continue doing this as long as I can do it well," she tells me."

"They are students in the nearly 45-year-old Upward Bound program, a federal grant-funded student outreach program meant to foster a broader college consciousness in lower-income students whose families have never had a member earn a four-year degree."

"School districts and their local partners in inner cities and rural communities are overcoming poverty and family breakdown to create high-performing schools, including charters and traditional public schools."

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"The Education Law Center, which represents children in low-income cities, argued that it was because the constitution requires the state to provide children a "thorough and efficient education." "

"The San Francisco-based appeals court struck down that policy, siding with low-income families in Richmond, Hayward and Los Angeles that claimed that a disproportionate number of uncredentialed teachers were teaching in their schools."

"She visited one school in each borough, serving different grades, most of them with similar student populations: primarily black and Latino students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a snapshot of a system where minorities are the majority and poverty is pervasive."

"About 1,080 homeless children are enrolled in Manatee County schools. The course on homelessness was one of more than 100 offered to educators looking to improve their teaching techniques and strategies in their classrooms."