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"The problem is especially acute, experts say, in districts that serve lower-income students. As a result, teachers are forced to spend much of the first weeks of school bringing students back up to speed instead of moving them forward."

"Was Rhee naive to think she could, as critics charged from day one? No doubt. How else to explain her admission that she is just now learning that school reform -- using education to empower poor black students -- would be viewed by some as a 'radical concept'?"

"Hundreds of Bay State children are being shut out of the federal low-income Head Start program this fall as wait lists grow and state and federal budgets fail to keep up with the rising demand amid the dismal economy, a Herald review has found."

"The number of children living with their grandparents has risen throughout the past decade and jumped sharply during the recession, according to a new analysis of census data. One child in 10 now lives with a grandparent, the Pew Research Center reported this week."

"The Girls Club was founded in 1996, largely to give girls from low-income families some entrepreneurial skills and a grounding in healthy living. But in recent months, the club has taken a turn for the technical."

"For the first time ever, Merced County received $2.5 million in one-time American Recovery and Reinvestment Act money to start new Early Head Start programs, a federally funded program that provides high quality child care for children aged infant to 3 in low-income families."

"If they take over the Indiana House, Republicans will launch a major campaign for competitive-oriented education reform in next year's General Assembly. Look for a big push for grants to low-income families so they can have school choice..."

"The backpack program is another indicator -- in addition to rising food stamp usage, individuals qualifying for Medicaid and other anti-poverty programs -- of how Americans are struggling to make ends meet with the fallout from lost jobs and wages."

"And since the 1990s, lawyers representing low-income students have filed a string of so-called educational adequacy suits, arguing that states have not allotted enough money to provide an adequate public education..."

"Neidaly was once homeless and now lives with her parents, who she said were disabled, in public housing. She leaves that world behind when she goes to school, participating in activities like the sailing team (it sails near City Island) and taking in the aquaculture curriculum."

"Not only are California's low-income students and students of color disproportionately underachieving, but even the children of white, affluent and college-educated parents lag significantly behind their peers from other states."

"Nearly 4,000 backpacks filled with school supplies and food are being distributed to homeless public school students around New Mexico."