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"Senate Bill 2126, which Crist signed into law, is expected to significantly ramp up the number of students using tax-credit vouchers, which are limited to low-income families. There are 27,700 students in the program now."

"A push to eliminate free local bus and train rides to all but low-income senior citizens failed Wednesday in the Illinois Senate."

"The process also can be expensive. Applications to selective colleges cost about $50 each, although fee waivers are available for low-income students."

"Homeless and low-income seniors participated in the electoral process this morning as Sacramento City Council candidates and county supervisor hopefuls spoke and answered their questions at Loaves and Fishes."

"That second bill would allow colleges and universities to increase tuition by a larger amount than now allowed, as long as they also provide more financial aid to low-income and middle-income students and meet other goals."

"This building in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx... went into foreclosure last year when Milbank defaulted... Since then, the tenants have been left to watch conditions deteriorate -- there are now more than 900 open violations on Ms. Paulino's Heath Avenue building alone..."

"The school plucks girls out of environments where teen pregnancy and minimum-wage jobs are commonplace and sets them on the path to college and professional careers."

"Majority members of the Wake County school board promised the federal education department Tuesday that they stand committed to voluntary desegregation to reduce minority isolation and promote cultural integration."

"All of the 'gold-standard' studies of vouchers have found academic benefits: six showed significant gains in reading and math; four found these gains concentrated among key subgroups -- African-American and low-income students."

"Financial literacy is especially important to the 86 percent of Chicago Public School students who come from low-income homes where parents might turn to expensive payday loans or currency exchanges for help, Huberman said."

"Kenneth English... says there are many reasons that people reach adulthood unable to read and write effectively, or even at all. Some immigrants... never went to school. Among native-born Americans, some had their schooling interrupted by family disaster or sheer poverty..."

"He was even willing to deal with a fault-finding columnist, if it would help. Nearly 66 percent of his students were low-income, but he was not going to let that slow him down."