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"One of the most dramatic changes is the proposed shift from middle schools to pre-K-8 schools in some low-income neighborhoods. Superintendent Peter Gorman... say the new structure will prevent the academic slump many students suffer when they move up to middle schools."

"Portland Community College operates a job-skills program for low-income parents on cash assistance in part of the space rented by the county, and the county allows neighborhood groups to use conference rooms for free."

"The Dexter Regional High School Key Club will again co-sponsor the event with the student council, Seeds of Peace and the football team. The event is designed to raise funds for homeless agencies and awareness of homelessness. About $12,000 has been raised..."

"New Jersey distributes a greater share of its education funding to school districts with low-income students enrolled, an effort for which the state received high marks on a national analysis of school funding systems released Tuesday by the Education Law Center."

"There is a host of challenges society has to face head-on that complicate the ability for a community to improve its school system... This fight includes unstable families, poverty, unwed teens having babies, powerful gangs, crime, parental incarceration and abuse..."

"While its cradle-to-college approach, which seeks to break the cycle of poverty for all 10,000 children in a 97-block zone of Harlem, may be breathtaking in scope, the jury is still out on its overall impact. And its cost... has raised questions about its utility as a nationwide model."

'[Superintendent Carol Johnson] proposes to convert the underperforming Gavin Middle School in South Boston to an in-district charter school. It would be managed by Unlocking Potential, a group of charter-school experts who have an excellent record serving low-income students..."

"Parents by the hundreds packed into the auditorium at Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic Church this summer to hear about Gateway Science Academy, a charter school opening on church grounds."

"Head Start, the nation's most important education program for 3- and 4-year-olds, is failing too many poor students."

"Low-income and minority students are increasingly concentrated in for-profit institutions. The for-profits represent about 9 percent of all student enrollments, but 16 percent of black students and 24 percent of Pell recipients attend these schools."

"I haven't seen 'Waiting for Superman,' the documentary which tracks five American students as they try to win slots in charter schools to escape their impoverished public schools, but the title is suggestive - only a cartoon superhero can save education."

"This is often the case in many urban schools, but Washington's profile is particularly grim. According to the Columbia University's National Center for Children in Poverty, in Washington in 2009: 30% of children lived in poor families... compared with 19% nationally."