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"Educators also might be rewarded for working at low-income schools, but those decisions will be left to school districts and teachers unions."

"For the past eight months, the Long Island Power Authority and National Grid have been sifting through a list of nearly 30,000 seniors who applied for a low-income senior credit of $200. So far, they've processed just more than 19,000 claims."

"That Monday's protest took place in the diverse, largely low-income Miami-Dade school district -- the state's largest -- was enough to catch the attention of Gov. Charlie Crist, who has until Friday to sign or veto the bill."

"We have overwhelming data that levels of education are strongly associated with levels of health. The best way to reduce infant mortality is to educate the mother. We know also that a childhood in poverty poses a measurable, significant risk of poor health..."

"More than 60 percent of those students are attending a community college.... Community colleges, the least costly of Ohio's public schools, increasingly are attracting groups that need extra help to succeed -- low-income students, working adults, underserved minorities..."

"A teacher who delivers top test scores in a low-income neighborhood in a needed subject area such as math or special education can earn as much as $146,000 a year. The top salary available now is $87,000."

"Officials want to restrict federal dollars to colleges like Keiser's by tying the size of educational loans to starting salaries upon graduation. They fear a replay of the subprime mortgage debacle, but with low-income, high-risk students mortgaging their futures on diplomas..."

"The average graduate leaves dental school with $250,000 in student loan debt, so few dentists think they can afford to practice in rural areas, which generally have a higher concentration of low-income patients, he said."

"In the debate over how to fix American public education, many believe that schools alone cannot overcome the impact that economic disadvantage has on a child, that life outcomes are fixed by poverty and family circumstances..."

"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."