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"I talk in the movie about the problems that kids bring from home --- poverty and all the environmental problems. I don't pretend that it's not there... What's different now is this new generation of educators who are finding ways to lift the most disadvantaged kids. "

"Virginia Beach has a blended model that teaches all-day kindergarten in its Title I schools - which receive federal funds because they serve low-income students - and half-day in the rest."

"It appears this approach would give us more high-poverty and racially segregated schools, fewer magnet seats in downtown schools and the continued need for significant busing."

"In essence, the case establishes that having quality teachers in high poverty schools could be considered a constitutional right in California. 'That's a pretty big deal,' he said. 'We've established the fact that you can't do harm to poor kids.'"

"The Norfolk, Va., public school system where data-driven assessments have been used for improvement. The Harlem Children Zone in New York where an anti-poverty program provides education and social services from early childhood through adulthood."

"EARN, a local nonprofit that specializes in micro loans and other financial services for low-income workers, has already committed to contributing $100 for every student whose family also saves $100 during the first years of the program."

"When the auction proceeds were given to the center in December, Miller announced the Buchanan Project - an effort to remodel and renovate the Buchanan Transitional Living Center, Iowa Homeless Youth Centers' coed facility for eight youths ages 16 to 21."

"The federal government proscribed consequences for some schools -- those receiving federal anti-poverty money -- that didn't reach goals. Schools like Reed Middle School must allow willing students the option to transfer away..."

"Advocates say these schools play a pivotal role in educating low-income students, but some experts in the field maintain that the graduates of for-profit campuses are often ill-prepared for work, deeply in debt and unable to transfer their units to not-for-profit universities."

"In the economic downturn, the state reduced the fund that covered the costs for at least one AP exam for every Georgia student and paid for low-income students to take as many as they wanted."

"These students, mostly low-income, would stay a median of about 20 weeks and amass as much as $11,000 in student debt, according to the report from the U.S. Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee."

"'Children across America, especially low-income children who are most at risk for hunger and for diet-related disease, will benefit greatly from the legislation, which will improve children's access to nutrition programs..."