Fascinating article in Salon today:
"As kids in New Orleans are turned away from filled schools, the city gambles its future on charter schools."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/02/13/n_o_schools/# It's not how schools are funded that's important, it's whether they exist at all.
Also...
I saw an eagle today!
It was roosted in the bare branches of a deciduous tree just accross the bike path from the lake.