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"President Barack's budget blueprint would expand the Pell Grant program to nearly $35 billion in aid next year, a 92 percent increase in the college funding program for low- and moderate-income families."

"The Monterey researchers analyzed 20 years of Salinas crime statistics and concluded that violence correlated most closely with lack of education... [D]ropout rates are high and literacy rates are low: A lack of options for poor Mexican children has driven cycles of gang violence..."

"Much of the federal funding, as directed by the state, has been used in special education and Title 1, a program aimed at helping low-income students improve their math and reading skills."

"Boston charter schools tend to do a good job of enrolling other student groups that tend to struggle academically... Most schools also serve a significant number of low-income students."

"The changes come at a tough time for area Catholic schools, which have been suffering from declining enrollment because of the economy and, in the District, the winding-down of the federal voucher program that gives low-income families up to $7,500 to attend private schools."

"WITH a statewide graduation rate of only 70 percent and graduation rates in many of our low-income communities below 50 percent, we have urgent work to do to make good on the promise of educational opportunity for New York state's 3 million schoolchildren."

"They initiated a rescue plan that included cutting in half the number of students they admitted and, for the first time, establishing a minimum LSAT score and grade-point average for admission, despite fears that it would deter many low-income and minority applicants."

"Time will tell how effective the pilot Starting Strong program has been. The program enrolls low-income 3- and 4-year-olds into Head Start who otherwise would've missed the opportunity."

"Today, most of the money helps pay for the state's Medicaid program, which provides health care to low-income people, Schoenberg said. It's a good use of the money, he said, because every dollar spent on the program brings in matching funds from the federal government."

"'There's always been issues in the South Philly schools, just because of the territorial divide in the neighborhood,' Philadelphia Deputy Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said. "You have a large number of youths in that area, a lot of poverty [there]..."

"A product of the Compton, Calif., public school system, Richardson-Lowry, 53, said she would call on her experience succeeding in that tough city to help guide her in dealing with the high rates of poverty and violence Chicago schoolchildren face."

"Beginning in March, some low-income expectant mothers may help in knocking down the county's crime rate. The county received a $2.7 million grant in December to start Early Head Start programs in South Dos Palos, Atwater, Merced and Delhi."