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"Seymour predicted that in high-poverty neighborhoods, the child maltreatment rate is 15 to 20 per 1,000 children, whereas in more affluent areas, that figure is 8 per 1,000.One in three 5-year-olds in low-income neighborhoods is kindergarten- ready, and the same portion of students graduate from high school on time, he said."

"Legislation to help low-income families pay private school tuition is on its way to the Senate floor. In a 9-2 vote Tuesday, the Senate Education Committee put the controversial school-choice bill in position for a vote as soon as today. The legislation would provide vouchers for private schools and expand tax credits for businesses that contribute to scholarship programs for low- and middle-income children."

"A program that at one time kept as many as 15,000 mostly low-income children busy after school has fallen victim to state budget cuts and the bad economy."

"A sleepover fundraiser in Schenley Plaza to assist homeless people ended early at 11 p.m. Friday after city officials enforced an ordinance against camping in city parks, an outcome an organizer of the event called "an irony.""

"For the roughly 40 future social workers, the marches are a class lesson on how to fight for something they are passionate about: the poor. After a discussion on state cuts in assistance to the low-income population in Michigan, the UM-Flint social work class decided to do more than just talk about it. They decided to picket over it."

"Child welfare officials asked the teens' last names not be used because of confidentiality provided to foster children by law."

"As states cut back on college support and grants, college tuitions have risen faster than the cost of homes, health care or energy. Americans believe a college education is key to their children's future, so more and more borrow what they can."

"At an event on Thursday, White House advisers Valerie Jarrett and Melody Barnes asserted that President Obama's economic policies have 'helped to keep millions of Americans from sliding into poverty.'"

"Less than 10 percent of its students are from low-income families, compared with 40 percent in its city. Maybe that has something to do with the fact that the school is allowed to ask (not require, it emphasizes) that every family donate $3,000 and 40 hours of volunteer time a year. "

"Moreno, the daughter of an illiterate Mexican bracero worker who worked the fields herself but graduated from high school, also blamed schools for failing to help the children of illegal immigrants graduate."

"The Oakland school district has no shortage of challenges to contend with, but its leaders lately have spent much of their time, energy and political capital on one contentious project: shrinking the school district down to a more manageable size."

"While the organization's Great Teachers Great Schools campaign looks to mobilize voters and tie their proposal to efforts to close achievement gaps between students from high-income and low-income families, the Massachusetts Teachers Association has ripped the plan as an effort to limit bargaining rights, diminish the role of seniority and experience in personnel decisions, and preclude part-time teachers from attaining professional status."