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"Education officials announced... that a soon-to-close Kansas City charter high school misspent more than $256,000 in federal money. The Missouri Department of Elementary... said the issue is Title I money that is allocated for serving students from low-income families."

"When about 90 percent of a student population is on the federal free or reduced lunch program, there are some realities that principals and teachers face. For parents of those students, what takes priority: Teaching kids the multiplication tables, or getting food on their plates?"

"The General Assembly made a commitment a few years ago to improve the low wages of paraprofessionals by bringing their salaries to the federal poverty level for a family of four. Today, a Step I instructional paraprofessional earns only $17,670 per year. "

"The report, Developing 20/20 Vision on the 2020 Degree Attainment Goal, makes a very powerful case that income inequality is at the center of our failure to keep pace with other countries on college completion."

"And as with the current school improvement process, districts with greater proportions of low-income and transient families figure to struggle more in keeping up with the rising standards."

"The federally funded program Project Connect, with support from the nonprofit Faces Without Places, helps meet homeless students' basic needs, such as transportation, school supplies and uniforms. Project Connect contracts with Women Writing for a Change..."

"Some Regents voiced concerns about the changes, saying they opposed having the same assessment counted twice or don't think using state tests takes family background, poverty and other factors into account."

"'I have no new idea for it, but I'd rather see keeping guidance counselors' and squeezing savings by putting some administrators on shorter contracts. Krassner pointed to a 60 Minutes clip about homeless students that Janssen showed at the start of the workshop."

"The academy is currently located in a building owned by Liberty Hill Baptist Church at 12th and Schiller streets. The college preparatory school is designed to serve children from low-income families in the community and prepare them to attend Little Rock School District high schools."

"Even with about 5,000 such programs across the country, about one in nine seniors are at risk of hunger because of factors that include poverty and limited mobility, program officials say."

"From 1959 to 2007, the proportion of the 65-plus population with incomes under the government's poverty line ($12,968 for a couple in 2009) dropped from 35.2 percent to 9.7 percent, which was half the poverty rate for children under 18 (18 percent)."

"Supporters of the law say several provisions will help low-wage workers who are uninsured or have bare-bones coverage. The law will expand Medicaid to cover people under 65 with income less than 133 percent of the federal poverty level..."