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"President Obama, delivering a schoolhouse pitch for a $1.35-billion expansion of his signature education plan, promised Tuesday to "raise the bar" on what is expected of public school teachers and students."

"'The trickle (of aid) from a few days ago ... is about to be a fire hose,' said Maj. Brian Fickel, a military spokesman. Aid groups were setting up a tent camp on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince that could house 100,000 left homeless by the quake."

"'We have a much higher poverty level than most states,' Horne said. 'But our kids perform better than the national average on the Terra Nova test.'"

''Although much smaller than Wichita's 50,000 students, the Middletown district has similar challenges because of a comparable poverty rate about 70 percent of students receive reduced-price meals."

"There is no dispute that the Wake County school system needs to do a better job of educating low-income students, but emotional arguments flare over whether the answer is to end busing for diversity."

"'The low-income students of Tennessee will, as the majority, determine whether Tennessee has a work force, a leadership of citizens that will bring high quality of life and a decent income and wages for the state, because they are the majority,' Suitts said."

"On the latter, it considers not only overall scores, but how much a state has improved and how much it has narrowed achievement gaps for low-income students."

"Gov. Pat Quinn on Thursday indicated he intends to hack away at the state's nearly $12 billion deficit by pursuing a tax reform plan that would boost income taxes on wealthier Illinois residents but would cut them for low- and moderate-income taxpayers."

"Low-income students, special education students, and students not fluent in English tend to lag, as well. Such gaps also show up on other measures, such as high school graduation rates."

"More than half of UC Merced applicants come from families considered low-income by the state. More than 50 percent are also the first in their families to attend college -- a percentage that is unmatched by any other UC campus."

"The district is emphasizing guided reading, small-group instruction, inquiry-based instruction, connected math that reaches across other disciplines and has added math and literacy coaches this year. Professional development in understanding poverty is continuing."

"Last year's Education Week report was highly touted by Gov. Charlie Crist and Education Commissioner Eric J. Smith, and it's likely they will do the same with the latest report."