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"More South Carolina elementary and middle schools earned passing report card grades in 2010 than they did last year despite spikes in poverty and cuts to budgets and staff."

"More of South Carolina's elementary and middle schools received high marks on their state report cards this year, despite state budget cuts and rising poverty levels. It's the second round of report cards since legislators revamped South Carolina's statewide testing..."

"With each drop in enrollment, schools have been forced to raise tuition rates to compensate for lost income, which in turn has contributed to a further decline in enrollment among the low-income families who now account for most children in urban Catholic schools."

"Community college students are more likely than their four-year peers to juggle full-time jobs or parenthood along with their course loads and to face poverty or other life circumstances that can hinder a college education."

"The biggest debate in public education is whether we can best help low-income students by making their lives better with financial support and health care for their families or make their schools better with more training of teachers and principals and more time for instruction."

"Head Start is a health and education program for preschoolers from low-income families. The program uses a scoring system developed by U.Va. to measure teacher quality in Head Start's 50,000 classrooms nationwide."

"African-American male students could be the nation's leading lagging indicator. To understand the depths of the nation's educational crisis, there's no better group to keep an eye on when it comes to underperformance."

"Giving kids something to do after school also helps deter them from crime and violence.But in a city with one of the highest child poverty rates in the country, finding affordable after-school programs can be tough, and many students do not have access to them."

"Wee all familiar with the National School Lunch (NSL) program, an entitlement meant to stave off hunger for low-income children so that they receive adequate nutrition during the school day. NSL is viewed simply as an extension of food stamps..."

"Poverty alone does not seem to explain the differences: poor white boys do just as well as African-American boys who do not live in poverty, measured by whether they qualify for subsidized school lunches."

"Students from Juneau-Douglas High School spent a night in cardboard shanties to raise awareness and money for homeless students in the community."

"The financial struggles of thousands of families in Wood and Adams counties is increasing the stress on school officials, as they try to address achievement gaps between impoverished students and the general student population."