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"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."

"School officials acknowledge that low-income students are under-represented in honors and AP classes. Students of color are also under-represented, if not almost entirely absent."

"The Community Action Council of Howard County, which helps low-income residents of the affluent jurisdiction, is on track to see about 2,000 people ages 45-plus this fiscal year - up 50 percent from a year earlier."

"A bill introduced this week in the General Assembly would establish the most expansive publicly funded school voucher program in the nation. The program could allow thousands of Hoosiers across the state to receive at least some state aid to apply toward private school tuition."