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"Kent Misegades, a director of businessman and Republican donor Robert Luddy's Thales Academies, says low-income students could benefit from the proposed tuition tax credit, which could be used for after-school tutoring or other purposes as well as daily instruction."

"Cerf said that only 22 percent of incoming high school freshmen in Newark ever graduate with a diploma, and even then 'it's not even a real degree.' One in five children from low-income families in Camden can read proficiently, he said."

"Nearly four in 10 Georgia high schools are dropout factories --- schools in which the number of seniors is routinely 60 percent or lower than the number of freshman three years earlier.Such schools tend to serve high proportions of students of color and low-income students..."

"Teach for America - the nonprofit agency that places recent college graduates in impoverished and struggling school systems - is expanding into Kentucky for the first time."

"...[S]chool-level data showing how voucher students performed on the same test taken by Wisconsin public school students is only fair. By that comparison, voucher students (who are all low-income) performed the same or worse as MPS students who qualified as low-income."

"Eliminating funding for AmeriCorps would be devastating for the thousands of students in high-poverty schools in Detroit and throughout the nation who depend on the academic support they receive from City Year."

"Even with that much money, improving these schools will be a tall order. These schools generally enroll students from very poor families, have hard-working but dispirited teachers, have safety problems, and as a result, have had unacceptably low test scores and graduation rates for years."

"That's one of the main reasons lawmakers agreed to Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal to shift $1 billion from First 5 programs to a new fund dedicated to healthcare for low-income children no older than 5."

"Half the students enrolled in the Springfield school district now come from families that straddle the poverty line."

"The measure does not require the alternative schools to offer all students transportation, provide subsidized meals to low-income students, or set racial diversity guidelines as Democrats wanted."

Rev. David Beckmann, president of Bread for the World, on proposed congressional budget cuts that would hurt those living in poverty

"The latest version would still create a separate charter school commission, but it would now only make recommendations to the State Board of Education on charter licensing and revocations. New charters also would have to provide transportation to low-income students..."