Latest Coverage

"Also, the complaint alleges, the school closings affect a disproportionate number of students in low-income neighborhoods such as Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, compared with neighborhoods serving higher percentages of white students..."

"Mayor Bloomberg has detailed, school by school, what parents can expect from last in, first out layoffs. The numbers reveal grossly unequal treatment - with low-income, mostly black and Hispanic schools bearing the brunt."

"Former scholars now include bankers, doctors, scientists, a film student raised in a Bronx homeless shelter, an analyst in the money laundering unit of the Manhattan district attorney's office and a licensed aircraft mechanic whose mother worked as a cashier in the food court..."

"It sought diversity, 'broadly defined to include a wide variety of factors, such as race, ethnicity, gender, English for speakers of other languages (ESOL), geography, poverty, prior school and cultural experiences, and other unique skills and experiences.'''

"At least five other high schools in Cook County, as well as a handful of others across the state, offer similar programs, according to Illinois Action for Children, a nonprofit that works with low-income families, including teen parents."

"Marci Young, director of Pre-K Now, a campaign of the Pew Center on the States, said multiple studies have shown that full-time programs are better than half-day programs, especially for low-income and other at-risk children."

"...Connecticut's poorest students are about three grade levels behind their peers in reading and math. It also says 60 percent of low-income students graduated from high school in 2009, compared with 86 percent of more affluent students."

"The tuition is $85 a week. But for Hite - and for her daughter Jameria, who almost dropped out of public school after giving birth to a child when she was 14 - the academy offers something invaluable: an escape from the troubled public school in her district."

"For Wendy Kopp, class of 1989, it became a career devoted to transforming primary and secondary education. What began as an idea for a teacher corps for hard-to-staff schools, urban and rural, became Teach for America."

"She believed something that bemused skeptics - that students from elite schools would volunteer to have their first experience out of college teaching in difficult-to-staff schools in areas of urban and rural poverty."

"Parents and teachers alike fear children, especially from low-income families, won't be prepared for kindergarten and beyond. And some parents are already scrambling to find extra care for their children this fall."

"And in low-tax, low-spending Texas, the kids are not all right. The high school graduation rate, at just 61.3 percent, puts Texas 43rd out of 50 in state rankings. Nationally, the state ranks fifth in child poverty; it leads in the percentage of children without health insurance."