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"Only in the last couple of weeks have city officials and advocates for the elderly become fully aware of Gov. David A. Paterson's decision because it was not the typical budget reduction that becomes part of the annual jousting between Albany and New York City."

"In particular, Duncan discussed the Education Department's plan to issue guidance letters to schools across the United States, as well as its intention to conduct numerous compliance reviews around issues like discipline and equal access to educational opportunities."

"The children at School 19 and in Katie Fuller-Nave's classroom come to school with the deck stacked against them. About 95 percent live in poverty, some of them in extreme poverty. And as many as a third don't speak English as their first language."

"We encourage the Board of Education to prevent schools of concentrated poverty in its plans and to push for new planning ordinances that will increase the supply of good, affordable housing throughout the county."

"The unions argue this will chase teachers out of the profession. There will be more demands, more tests, more stress, less job stability and a disincentive for teachers to tackle low-income classrooms."

"The Latino community's growing anxiety over the board's decision highlights Prince George's uneasy transition from a majority-black county that has been a magnet for affluent African Americans to a county increasingly characterized by low-income Latino immigrant enclaves."

"Money would be distributed to districts based on numbers of low-income students and most heavily to schools that have been the lowest-performing on standardized tests in recent years."

"In Pasco, nearly 70 percent of students come from low-income families, and 61 percent come from non-English-speaking or bilingual homes. In some individual schools, those numbers are much higher."

"Some liberals try to resist any accountability for teachers by blaming the poverty and social circumstances of students themselves, arguing in essence, 'First solve all the problems of society...' They are refuted by the existence of high-poverty, high-performing public schools."

"'Kids come to school hungry; some are homeless,' said Mary Flanagan, 55, a third-grade teacher from Richmond. 'How can we deal with problems like that with as many as 38, 40 kids in a class?''"

"The districts and charter schools that became partners in the application enroll more than 650,000 students, including 56 percent of the state's low-income students, 75 percent of its African American students, and 71 percent of Hispanic students..."

"She decided to dedicate her savings to a new scholarship program that would award $5,000 a year, renewable for four years, to a low-income, black, female student at Kennedy High.'So many African-American women have a difficult time. Having an education can help them...'"