are struggling with them in wealthy and in middle - and low - income
schools; in
rural, suburban, and urban districts; in magnet, regular, district, charter, parochial, and independent
schools; along the coasts, in the American heartland, from south to north, and
everywhere in between.»
Districts rich or poor and urban or
rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that
everywhere push for more
school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.