Apropos, this line jumped out at me from a touching article in today's NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/education/31winerip.html
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Statewide, 43 percent of Ohio public school students are disadvantaged,
as measured by free and reduced lunches, compared with 33 percent in
2005, according to a recent survey by KidsOhio, a nonprofit educational
organization based in Columbus.
<quote>
43% of the kids in the entire state!? And that's not close to one of our poorest states.
Michael