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"While its cradle-to-college approach, which seeks to break the cycle of poverty for all 10,000 children in a 97-block zone of Harlem, may be breathtaking in scope, the jury is still out on its overall impact. And its cost... has raised questions about its utility as a nationwide model."

'[Superintendent Carol Johnson] proposes to convert the underperforming Gavin Middle School in South Boston to an in-district charter school. It would be managed by Unlocking Potential, a group of charter-school experts who have an excellent record serving low-income students..."

"Parents by the hundreds packed into the auditorium at Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church this summer to hear about Gateway Science Academy, a charter school opening on church grounds."

"Head Start, the nation's most important education program for 3- and 4-year-olds, is failing too many poor students."

"Low-income and minority students are increasingly concentrated in for-profit institutions. The for-profits represent about 9 percent of all student enrollments, but 16 percent of black students and 24 percent of Pell recipients attend these schools."

"I haven't seen 'Waiting for Superman,' the documentary which tracks five American students as they try to win slots in charter schools to escape their impoverished public schools, but the title is suggestive - only a cartoon superhero can save education."

"This is often the case in many urban schools, but Washington's profile is particularly grim. According to the Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty, in Washington in 2009: 30% of children lived in poor families... compared with 19% nationally."

"I talk in the movie about the problems that kids bring from home --- poverty and all the environmental problems. I don't pretend that it's not there... What's different now is this new generation of educators who are finding ways to lift the most disadvantaged kids. "

"Virginia Beach has a blended model that teaches all-day kindergarten in its Title I schools - which receive federal funds because they serve low-income students - and half-day in the rest."

"It appears this approach would give us more high-poverty and racially segregated schools, fewer magnet seats in downtown schools and the continued need for significant busing."

"In essence, the case establishes that having quality teachers in high poverty schools could be considered a constitutional right in California. 'That's a pretty big deal,' he said. 'We've established the fact that you can't do harm to poor kids.'"

"The Norfolk, Va., public school system where data-driven assessments have been used for improvement. The Harlem Children Zone in New York where an anti-poverty program provides education and social services from early childhood through adulthood."