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"The month-long 'Backpack to the Future' School Supply Drive begins Monday. Collected items will benefit low-income kindergarten-age school children throughout Northwest Ohio."

"Title I schools with large low-income student populations continue to receive additional money for professional learning, Beasley said. However, budget cuts had an impact on the use of outside consultants."

"Yet not all seniors have had those advantages and for them, aging is a far more dismal picture. The Florida Department of Elder Affairs estimates that more than 400,000 state residents over 60 live below the poverty line and that 800,000 Floridians over 65 are medically underserved."

"The report is part of a study released earlier this year that examined suburban poverty in 100 of the nation's largest metropolitan areas, Harvey said. Polk County has the fifth-highest rate of suburban poverty in the nation, according to the report."

"Six weeks may be the boost needed to help close the educational gap between lower- and upper-income children. That is the length of the Horizons at Harley Student Enrichment Program."

"Schools are subject to different levels of sanctions depending on how many consecutive years they fail to reach that benchmark. Schools with many low-income students get Title I money to bolster academics."

"The need is staggering. VESTIA coordinator Anne Struthers notes a 60 percent increase in applications for food stamps this year in Contra Costa County alone. Janette Bormann of Tools 4 School has received twice as many inquiries this year over last about free backpacks..."

"Gorman noted that low-income, black and Hispanic kids in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, which has many schools with high concentrations of poverty, now outscore counterparts in Wake County, which has long assigned students for diversity."

"Every year, more than 1,000 Pinellas teachers ask to move to other schools, with some of the highest numbers coming from south county schools with high poverty rates. But this year, two schools in Dunedin and three in Clearwater also are at the top of the list."

"The elementary school is a site for Courage 2 Change, a summer camp for low-income and at-risk students. For two weeks in June and two weeks in July, 20 elementary and middle school students in the camp come to Dawson to get tutoring...'

"Schools make AYP when students at the school including students with disabilities, low-income students and minority populations meet goals in those three areas."

"The report, commissioned by KIPP, debunked the argument that the schools succeed by 'creaming' the best students from the districts they operate in. In fact, researchers said KIPP students are more likely to be low-income and black or Hispanic..."