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"While third through fifth graders there are predominantly black and Latino and many meet the city's measure of poverty, the younger students in lower grades are increasingly white and middle class, and have not yet been tested."

"That is a triumph for a school that takes all comers and has the numbers to prove it - 30 percent of students are English language learners, 20 percent require special-education services, and 75 percent live below the poverty line."

"The campaign to raise the achievement of black, Latino and low-income students has been bumping along in this school system for so many years, it's begun to seem like smoke and mirrors."

"In its report on the high dropout rate in public high schools, titled "A Future at Risk," the Public Affairs Research Council makes the point that not only the dropout's future, but also the state's future is at risk."

"The number of low-income and Hispanic students continues to grow in Maine Township High School District 207 even though overall enrollment has slightly declined, according to a demographics report released this month."

"The concept behind the government-sponsored Early College School is to help low-income students succeed. The students must meet certain requirements, among them maintaining good grades, having good attendance and demonstrating proper behavior."

"Teachers at Voise Academy and other schools where technology is central to the curriculum said the Comcast plan is a way to help remove a family's low income as a barrier to educational success."

"About 99 percent of SJHS's student body comes from low-income households. The school is 30 percent black and 70 percent Latino, serving predominately black North Lawndale and adjacent Little Village, a largely Latino community."

"The Hillsboro School Board remained skeptical this week of a request by Washington County to offer tax-exempt status to owners of low-income housing within district boundaries."

"Roughly 100 percent of Kimberley Park's students get free or reduced-price lunches, a measure of the relative poverty the school finds among its families. It's a Title 1 school, meaning it gets extra money from the federal government."

"''You had to see it to appreciate the juxtaposition of this horrible poverty -- shanties with signs saying 'Help' -- right under the bridge on the way to glamorous Miami Beach,' Ms. Brown said recently. 'No one wanted to do anything about it because it was political suicide to ask for help for sex offenders.'"

"'We see children as young as 4 years old and adults as old as in their 80s,' said Dr. Patton. In addition to working with individuals who make appointments, 'we work (through grants) with various groups such as veterans, children and the homeless, and we see a wide range of people in terms of age, ethnicity and income.'"