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"If you had a million dollars to spend on Newark's public schools, how would you use it?More teachers? Tutors? New books? Advanced classroom technology? No, the correct answer -- to the city's mayor, at least -- is "relentless outreach."

"Arkansas tests students and labels schools and school districts to comply with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2002. That law calls for all students to achieve at their grade level on state math and literacy tests by 2013-14 regardless of race, ethnicity, poverty level..."

"The 4-3 council vote was the second time that Canal Winchester has turned down plans for low-income senior-citizen housing submitted by Fairfield Homes, and it's not the only central Ohio community where residents recently have opposed such apartments."

Topic(s): Aging

"It's not enough to serve a turkey feast on the holidays for older New Yorkers, at least, not in a state where the experts estimate that one in four New Yorkers over age 60 and living at home is considered nutritionally at risk."

"During the past 10 years, the percentage of students who qualify for free and reduced-price meals in Wisconsin schools has risen gradually from 24.1 percent in 2000-01 to 37.2 percent in 2009-10."

"Her excitement quickly fades when her living situation is brought up. During the summer before seventh grade, she became homeless. Now she shares a bedroom with her aunt, who is a live-in caregiver. Her father is unemployed and disabled."

"I believe strongly in the importance of Social Security; it keeps millions of seniors out of poverty and provides critical longevity risk insurance - that is the risk of outliving your money. If anything, Social Security benefits should be beefed up in the years ahead, not reduced."

"Public education in America, particularly in our most troubled urban neighborhoods, has been broken for a long time, and nowhere more so than in our nation's capital."

"However, significant boosts in federal grant aid and the use of tax credits provided so much relief that many families, particularly low-income households, were shielded from those price increases, the report found."

"Across the state, black, Latino and low-income students had the most difficulty moving into the advanced level. And more than 500 schools had fewer than 10 percent of students at the top level in reading, many in Chicago Public Schools."

"The high school where those students are guaranteed a seat -- Lincoln Park High -- was the city's highest-scoring neighborhood high school, and No. 130 statewide. Lincoln Park High achieved those results with 57 percent low-income kids."