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"Among the school's 740 students, more than half of them use or are learning English as a second language. The school also serves 142 homeless children, which school social worker Kedric Sledge said is one of the biggest such groups in the Fulton County school system."

"The $26 million went toward construction of a 92-unit apartment building near downtown L.A. for seniors, some of them homeless and disabled. Though ready for occupants, it has sat empty since December while many prospective tenants live in shelters or substandard housing."

"Anton and his peers at St. Martin de Porres... are still at least four years away from enrolling in a university. In the meantime, they will take part in a three-year research project at Saint Mary's a study of students who dream of being the first in their families to graduate from college."

"But many supporters of the scholarship fear the revisions could put college out of reach for a large number of part-time and low-income students. 'For many students, Bright Futures is how they get into college,' said Christian Chung, 17, a junior at College Academy..."

"A local developer plans to build 175 apartments for senior citizens there. About a quarter of those apartments would be federally subsidized for people making less than $21,500 a year."

"Most of the minority students at Eleanor Roosevelt are, after all, middle class, as are most black people in Prince George's. Twenty-five percent of the student body is low-income, below the national average of 40 percent."

"Illinois school districts that were eligible for the federal stimulus money had to meet certain criteria, such as having the highest percentage of low-income families or having a substantial need for help in acquiring technology."

"In 2009, the U.S. Department of Education singled it out as a promising, innovative use of federal grants for high-poverty schools. CPS will use federal stimulus money to pay for this year's summer school."

"Currently, Oakland public schools have enrolled only about 54 percent of the city's school-age children, and 1 in 3 freshmen do not earn a high school diploma, Smith said. Among African American males, the graduation rate is 40 percent, he added"

"Author of the 2009 book, `The Flat World and Education,' Darling-Hammond says neither poverty, nor the diverse nature of the American population are excuses not to educate everyone. Several countries were behind the United States decades ago in education and now have passed us."

"'We united around the idea that even though we're at this great, private institution ... the community around us was afflicted with endemic poverty,' said Ted Gonder, one of the founders. 'No one was tackling the root of the issue, which we believed was financial illiteracy.'"

"As a senior citizen resident of Green Brook with an extremely low income, I am concerned about the impact of our current economy on a potential increase in my property tax. The Courier News ran a series of articles on excess (and wasteful) spending by our municipalities."