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"Using his 'more carrots, fewer sticks' approach, the president also proposes to restructure Title I funding for impoverished students so schools showing the most improvement -- perhaps the top 10% -- receive more money."

"Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) plans to offer an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that would continue federally funded vouchers for low-income students attending private schools in Washington."

"Low-income disabled people and senior citizens are entitled to a property tax credit on their state tax returns of up to $750 for renters and $1,100 for those who own their homes."

"It calls for cuts across government operations, furloughs of many employees and a budget for schools that is $137 million less than... requested... Montgomery's programs to help elderly and disabled residents in their homes and to reach out to the homeless would be scaled back."

"It has placed recess coaches in 170 schools in low-income areas of nine cities, including Boston, Washington and Los Angeles, and of Silicon Valley. Playworks schools are not the only ones with organized recess games."

"While adopting the standards would be voluntary, the Obama administration has said that it intends to withhold millions of dollars in grants for low-income students in states that refuse to join the effort - regardless of the quality of their existing standards."

"Bonuses now given to teachers with National Board certification would be eliminated in 2014, but districts could give teachers incentives to work in low-income areas and low-performing schools."

"Seniors have been understandably worried about the health care plan, since much of it is financed with Medicare cuts the government's own experts say could be unsustainable."

"More than $7 billion in federal stimulus funds has been allocated for broadband expansion nationwide, and some of that money recently went to the University of Massachusetts in Lowell to make high-speed Internet available to elders and low-income minority residents."

"The Rockland Housing Authority hopes to secure a $10 million US grant so that it can double its housing stock for low-income and elderly residents and build a new, freestanding senior center."

"'Even though I am part of a low income family I am not giving up on college. This is my only opportunity to beat the odds and better my life forever.'"

"After waiting more than a month for Chicago Public Schools to provide him with federally mandated bus service to Fenger, the teen gave up Friday and decided he would return to school in Joliet under the provisions of a law that protects homeless youth."