I wonder if this story will get any play here in the States...?

I was wondering the same thing--irate parents screaming about schools, senators asking for more money--but I don't know anymore if there is a climate encouraging learning in the southeast. Don't get me wrong--there are great universities in the south, William & Mary, excellent state universities, etc. But stats show that people in the south aren't as educated, get married sooner, get divorced more often, and earn less. (If we'd only known...Lincoln should have let them secede.)

Without a change in that climate, I'm not sure money will help.