Latest Coverage

"A similar program is in place. Under the No Child Left Behind law, districts are required to offer public school options to parents in high-poverty schools that repeatedly fail to meet federal standards. Generally speaking, few parents exercise that option."

"While employment rates have fallen sharply among the general population, they have not done so among the elderly."

"In the next two years the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system will each receive a little over a billion dollars in state aid, 10 percent less than they received in the previous two years."

"The research showed that while some high-poverty schools suspended students at unexpectedly high rates, others with strikingly similar characteristics did not. The same discipline gap was clear for prosperous, suburban schools and small, rural schools: Some were harsh and others with nearly identical qualities were not."

"A third of Michigan's seniors are considered 'economically insecure' far more than the federal poverty limits would suggest, according to a new study."

"And in the District, the 2010 D.C. Healthy Schools Act set strict standards for fat and sodium content and requires that 20 percent of produce come from the Mid-Atlantic region. In the high-poverty district, all schools must offer universal free breakfast."

"Gross said Kentucky's current early-childhood program serves 23,000 students, including low-income 4-year-olds, and 3- and 4-year-olds who have developmental delays or disabilities regardless of family income."

"The State and Local Funding Flexibility Act would let school districts spend money earmarked for impoverished children on almost any educational purpose they chose. This would inevitably lead to money going from politically powerless poor schools to those without the same needs."

"Joy Christian School officials did not return calls Monday. In the agreement, the private school did not admit to violating any laws but agreed to pay the following amounts: $30,000 for each of the next five years to help pay tuition for low-income students."

"The state expects most middle-class school districts to use the added funds to reduce property taxes. But the most impoverished districts will use the money for educational programs. Gov. Chris Christie said there was nothing he could do about the last-minute decisions."

"Teachers took Fields to the school ELECT program, which helps pregnant students and young mothers stay in class and graduate. In November, Fields gave birth to a son. And in June, bolstered by parent training and academic tutoring, she accepted her diploma. Now the future of ELECT has grown hazy."

"In a study of nearly a million Texas children described as an unprecedented look at discipline, researchers found that nearly identical schools suspended and expelled students at very different rates. The research showed that while some high-poverty schools suspended students at unexpectedly high rates, others with strikingly similar characteristics did not."