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"The correlation between education and employment is clear: The better the education, the more likely a person will seek and find employment. The U.S. unemployment rate for those without a high school diploma is 14.3 percent; for those with a bachelor's degree or higher, it is 4.3 percent."

"The Storyline from the latest MCAS results is disappointing: Overall, our schools are only making slow progress narrowing the gap between low-income and middle-class kids. But the charter school folks have reason to be happy"

"Both are part of a growing group of Georgia teachers who don't have education degrees nor traditional teaching backgrounds but are now staffing some of the state's most poverty challenged schools."

"It's not just children who live in the inner city, or struggling rural towns. It's not just children of color or from a particular ethnic group newly arrived in the country. And it's not just children from single-parent households. Poverty today touches families in all walks of life."

"'The city needs a homeless shelter. This is not the spot. This community needs a new home for the Friendly Kitchen. This is not the spot,' he said. Erik Williams, a member of the Concord School Board and a Rumford neighborhood resident, agreed."

"No wonder the lottery had its best year in 2010. And this year promises to be successful, too, with more North Carolinians falling into poverty. Many see a potential lottery payoff as their best chance to get ahead. Of course, the odds are against them."

"Nearly 21,000 students in Oregon public schools lived in homeless situations at some point during the last school year. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Susan Castillo says that's 1,500 more than the previous year."

"The district's homeless population of 800 is a slight decrease, but it remains high compared with six years ago when it served 475 homeless students. Oregon's homeless student population continues to swell, with 1,500 new students last year for a total of 20,545. That's a 152 percent increase during the past seven years."

"Oldham as a district made 15 of 22 of its goals this year, falling short with math and reading among black students, low-income students and students with disabilities. The district also missed it's math goal among Hispanic students."

"'We have people who want to tell people poverty doesn't exist,' declared Eugene White, superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools. 'These are people who woke up on third base and thought they hit a triple.'"

"Sensing an alarming trend, the Ozark School District commissioned a research company to shed light on the area's growing poverty rate."

"The state's EdChoice program -- an extension of a Cleveland voucher system -- allows students from low-income families in academically poor districts to apply for vouchers to cover tuition at a private school."