New Republic blog, The Plank, March 4, by Josh Patashnik
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/03/04/nationalize-the-schools.aspx
As UC Berkeley’s Goodwin Liu explains, Massachusetts has 33 percent fewer poor children than Alabama, but receives 36 percent more aid under Title I of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act.