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"The voucher program for low-income New Orleans elementary school children was approved by the state Legislature two years ago with strong backing from Gov. Bobby Jindal. About 1,200 students received vouchers worth about $7,400 apiece in the 2009-2010 school year..."

"A Brooklyn teen who wasn't allowed to take a final exam because she is homeless finally got her diploma yesterday. 'We did it! We did it!' Rosa Bracero said at the High School for Civil Rights, her face buried in her mom's shoulder."

"The estimated summer school tuition is $200. There will be a sliding scale to adjust the payment for students from lower-income families. Those earning below the federal poverty line are exempt..."

"Low income Atlantic County residents, age 60 and older are encouraged to take advantage of the state's farm market produce voucher program... that provides an opportunity to purchase locally grown produce using $20 worth of free vouchers."

"Karl L. Alexander of Johns Hopkins University found that by ninth grade, accumulated learning loss for low-income children accounted for two-thirds of the achievement gap between them and higher-income children who had summer learning opportunities..."

"A decision was made to identify students who may have been at risk for dropping out - middle quartile students, at or below the poverty line, parented by single parents...- and intervening by providing 400 of them a new learning environment called the Early College High School."

"Cooper Elementary School, a high-poverty school where a majority of students are learning English as a second language, received a $2.1 million federal grant as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act."

"About 85 percent came from low-income families, the overwhelming majority single-mother households. Many kids lagged far behind in academics, but that wasn't their only obstacle. There was poverty."

"In two months, Bob Muse no longer will lie down for the night inside a homeless shelter or under a tree. For the first time in a couple of years, he'll sleep on his own bed. For the first time in 39 years, he'll be in college."

"A small increase in federal Pell Grants for low-income students will help offset the cuts in Opportunity Grants, but many students will take on additional debt..'There is definitely going to be an income strata of students who will make a decision not to go to college right now.'"

"A small increase in federal Pell Grants for low-income students will help offset the cuts in Opportunity Grants, but many students will take on additional debt, said Bob Kieran, the Oregon University System's assistant vice chancellor for research."

"Critics of the board's majority have warned that the move to neighborhood schools could result in de facto resegregation that would be devastating in areas with high concentrations of poverty, places such as Southeast Raleigh."