You make a valid point and I am no expert on this subject not even close. Just a layman looking at it from a very base level. But having said that, I been living in Anchorage since 1985 and read and seen it all. No matter how much money we put in, the "children are still failing". That is punch line that goes back that far. Obviously the system needs to be fix. Maybe you are too close and I am too far to correct this. But it clear that money is NOT the real issue here. That is the problem with this article, when the author start to use children as a human shield to get funding, it get old and tiresome because everyone uses the kids as a metaphoric force shield since days of Flintstones. And nothing is improve. What we really need is food for thought on this problem. Any ideas??