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"'If you tell people there's an increase in poverty in Columbus, they get that,' said Mark Real, president and CEO of KidsOhio. 'But this information is really striking to them. It shows that this is a shared issue.'"

"Highland school district saw its mobility rate and percentage of low income students rise this year, which, administrators say, is a sign of continuing hard economic times."

"There is a particular benefit to low-income, first-generation community college students, said Ryan Ross, director of the Academic Student Support and Education Transition Center at the Community College of Denver."

"The achievement gap between low-income and minority students and their peers is gaping. In the end, an astonishing 1.2 million students - more than three times the population of the city of St. Louis - fail to graduate from high school each year."

"Delgado-Olson is targeting what he sees as a clear and urgent gap in local schools: the lack of a system to ensure that all low-income children have the supplies they need to learn. He first identified the problem in 2007 while attending community meetings..."

"Today the schools are a study in economic contrast: West is among the district's poorest schools, with more than four in five students living in poverty. Northwest is among the most affluent."

"Like many people his age, Steve Demain checks his Facebook page, reads the news, writes e-mails and surfs the Web on his laptop. But unlike a typical 20-year-old with a laptop, Mr. Demain is homeless."

"More South Carolina elementary and middle schools earned passing report card grades in 2010 than they did last year despite spikes in poverty and cuts to budgets and staff."

"More of South Carolina's elementary and middle schools received high marks on their state report cards this year, despite state budget cuts and rising poverty levels. It's the second round of report cards since legislators revamped South Carolina's statewide testing..."

"With each drop in enrollment, schools have been forced to raise tuition rates to compensate for lost income, which in turn has contributed to a further decline in enrollment among the low-income families who now account for most children in urban Catholic schools."

"Community college students are more likely than their four-year peers to juggle full-time jobs or parenthood along with their course loads and to face poverty or other life circumstances that can hinder a college education."

"The biggest debate in public education is whether we can best help low-income students by making their lives better with financial support and health care for their families or make their schools better with more training of teachers and principals and more time for instruction."