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"Poole never considered himself homeless -- he always had a place to stay with friends or family -- but he fits what federal law considers a homeless student. Lake County has about 2,500 students in the school district who are also homeless."

"'I didn't even consider college; I just thought about working,' she said. 'It should have been education; I wish I'd thought like that.' Ms. Gonzalez worked low-wage restaurant jobs and dealt with her financial pressures by hanging out and drinking. Her mother began caring for Taliyah."

"The center was designed by Gloria Bonilla-Santiago, LEAP Academy University Charter School founder and a Rutgers distinguished professor. Funded with grants, private donations, and appropriations from the Camden City School District, it serves low-income families from the city."

"But they worry that doing so may jeopardize their standing as advocates for the children who need them most, many of whom are black and Latino, from low-income families, and, in many cases, still learning English."

"Many agree, including Steve Ngo, a City College of San Francisco trustee who calls it a civil rights issue. 'If students are not even getting basic English and math, they'll be stuck in poverty,' Ngo said. 'These recommendations focus course offerings on student needs.'"

"An analysis of state data by The Bay Citizen revealed a large variation in how fifth graders in Bay Area elementary schools perform on the test. The schools that performed the best have few students from low-income families, for reasons that experts say are not surprising."

"A portion of a $28 million Promise Neighborhoods award won by the Northside Achievement Zone will go for preschool scholarships for poor families. And a $15 million Investing in Innovation grant was awarded to the University of Minnesota and its partner organizations to implement 33 Child-Parent Centers, a learning improvement strategy for low-income families developed in Chicago for pre-K through grade 3."

"Those women do not go to Pine Manor anymore. Fifteen years ago, as enrollment at many women's schools dwindled, the college assumed a new identity to attract students: It focused almost all its recruiting on low-income women who showed perseverance, if not perfect grades."

"'If you walk through the community and ask kids who their favorite basketball player is, they'll say 'LeBron James,'' he said. 'And so many students can identify with him because of his childhood experiences, growing up in poverty.'"

"Things could have been different for Charles Shelton's daughter. The 26-year-old Battle Creek man said he recently went through a divorce that turned nasty. He said he faced legal problems and went to jail, putting him out of a job and out of his home. He ended up at the Haven of Rest Ministries homeless shelter downtown."

"Voucher programs provide money for low-income students to leave failing public schools and enroll in private schools. The voucher program proposed last session would have pegged the value of the vouchers at half the per-pupil expenditure for the county."

"Two South Dakota organizations will receive funding from a Minnesota-based foundation for job training, public policy education and promotion of asset-building among low-income families."