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"Among children born into low-income households, more than two-thirds grow up to earn a below-average income, and only 6% make it all the way up the ladder into the affluent top one-fifth of income earners, according to a study by economists at Washington's Brookings Institution."

"Danielle attended kindergarten at Project HOPE School while living at Isaiah House. Project HOPE is an Orange-based school that provides education and other programs to homeless children."

"...Massachusetts lost fewer jobs than most states and maintained higher wages, all while avoiding a significant increase in poverty, according to 'The State of Working Massachusetts,' a report prepared by the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center, a nonpartisan think-tank..."

"Nationally, 52 percent of Hispanic students and 58 percent of black students are unable to earn a bachelor's degree in six years, compared with 40 percent of white students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics."

"Communities in Schools, which offers a variety of support programs for mostly low-income students, has worked with tens of thousands of Mecklenburg youths, many of them first-generation college graduates."

"Districts also received stimulus money for special-education initiatives and for programs to help students living in poverty. That money runs out this fiscal year. School officials hope for timely answers about the state's fiscal future when the legislature reconvenes next week."

"Irons is one author of a new 'budget blueprint for economic recovery and fiscal responsibility' that would spare low-income and moderate-income families from the 'drastic cuts' and some other austerity measures in the chairmen's plan."

"Some 80 percent of the city's schools didn't meet federal testing targets this year, leaving Mayor Richard Daley's successor with a massive organization still plagued by academic failure as well as budget woes, high poverty and debilitating social conditions..."

"It took away jobs and depleted the savings accounts, stock portfolios and home equity many middle-class families assumed would pay for college. As a result, Emory is spending nearly twice as much as planned to make college affordable for low- and middle-income families."

"The foundation's idea was to finance small schools that, in partnership with local colleges, would provide an early introduction to the concept and rigor of higher education to up to 400 low-income high school students, 100 per grade."

"During the first days Landis Brewer spent homeless, he maintained a facade of suburban comfort at South County High School, where the all-district running back with the easy smile was the image of teenage aplomb."

"Half of teacher evaluations would be based on three years of student data -- such as scores on the FCATs, the new end-of-course exams... The system would look at student growth rather than raw scores, and would account for factors including poverty and student mobility."