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"That was just the beginning, said Serena Peterson, assistant principal at McAuliffe, which has more than 800 students, most of them from families whose incomes are below the poverty level. The school was the first in the city to offer a free breakfast to all its students."

"1,051 -- Number of homeless school children counted by Anchorage School District in 2005.2,238 -- Number of homeless school children counted by district as of May 18, 2010.111% -- Increase in number of homeless children over last five years."

"Other abuses included admitting a family who lived outside the Head Start service area, ignoring proof of employment, and admitting extraordinarily high numbers of 'homeless' children. Under new rules, homeless children are automatically eligible for Head Start."

"In March, Obama cited the mass firings as an example of the tough measures needed to turn around struggling schools like Central Falls, which serves a low-income, heavily immigrant community."

"Public school children in both states fared better than the national average of 68 percent below proficient. Minority children and those living in poverty were much less likely to be proficient readers."

"Heartland Housing Executive Director Andrew Geer said there is a need for affordable senior housing in the area. About 90 percent of the apartments would be subsidized for low-income senior citizens."

"'The bottom line is that if we don't get dramatically more children on track as proficient readers, the United States will lose a growing and essential proportion of its human capital to poverty,' the authors say."

"Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, it was school board policy to promote diversity by balancing the percentages of minority students at schools. A decade ago, the board switched to promoting diversity by balancing the percentages of low-income students."

"A key lesson in the 'no excuses' type of public school, which uses firm measures to raise achievement for impoverished students, is behavior has consequences. The Knowledge Is Power Program.. does that by denying some students the traditional year-end trip to Orlando."

"Providing more poor families with free pre-school and helping teachers use student test data to guide instruction are among the South Dakota proposals for a $650 million federal grant competition."

"...[O]utdoor hearing attended by hundreds of school-choice advocates, a New Jersey Senate committee unanimously approved a bill Thursday that would create scholarships for some low-income children to attend private or out-of-district public schools."

"'We're seeing some improvement, but we're seeing a lot of unfortunate failure to improve, particularly by the state's lowest-performing schools... Those are the schools that tend to serve Latino, African American, and students in poverty."