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"They are part of the First Book program that gives free books to low-income students through agencies and organizations whose representatives came from as far away as Wisconsin and Ohio."

"Smith lived at the Delaney Homes federal housing complex on Convery Boulevard for many years. The complex provide housing for low-income families for several decades before operation and repair costs made the complex obsolete and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development decided it could be demolished."

"All six of Iowa City's secondary schools carry SINA designations, however, because they do not receive federal Title 1 funding for low-income students, so they are not subject to sanctions, Ehly said."

"Rather than pursue work in their chosen fields immediately after graduation, they were signing up to become teachers through Teach for America, a national nonprofit organization that places recent graduates into low-income communities for two-year terms as teachers."

"State Sen. Edward Maloney, chair of the Senate higher education committee, questioned CSU leaders on why their failing students received funds that could have gone to other low-income students in the state during the 2008-2009 school year. He also questioned if these students received federal Pell grants, money they could pocket for education expenses if it exceeds their financial aid."

"The Indiana Legislature has created an environment that, in time, will result in teacher shortages, drive teachers and administrators to flee schools with high poverty and possibly the state, and leave schools struggling to fund programs that provide educational opportunities to public students while the state uses tax dollars to subsidize children in private schools."

"Twenty supporters, most of them teachers, pleaded with the board to keep the partnership with UF's Lastinger Center for Learning - if not for the teachers, then for the students they serve in high-poverty schools."

"The state's performance, Dr. Tisch said, 'should lead the public to a deep understanding that you can redesign the bureaucracy, you can polish the floors in the classroom, but if you don't deal with the underlying issues,' like poverty and improving the curriculum and teaching, 'things will not change.'"

"Lagging achievement among low-income, minority students is a persistent problem here and elsewhere, one that the federal No Child Left Behind law was intended to address."

"By holding schools more accountable, forcing them to look at every student and making scores public, lawmakers hoped to spur schools to increase student performance and close the 'achievement gap' between white and minority students and between low-income and more affluent students."

"That the school district invited teachers to attend the talk for in-service credit is worrisome, Segert said, 'because it risks reinforcing a way of thinking about children in poverty that is inaccurate, prejudicial and ultimately counterproductive in addressing the achievement gap.'"

"It's a milestone that could have game-changing implications, social and economic. Fifty years after New Orleans began integrating public schools, the city's poverty rate is still more than twice as high among African-Americans as white students, a reality tied in some measure to persistent gaps in educational opportunities."