> Historical data may not be of much use given how much schools have changed in the last 20-30 years with mainlining, foreign-student integration, increases in

> Historical data may not be of much use given how much schools have changed in the last 20-30 years with mainlining, foreign-student integration, increases in poverty, ADA, etc. The recent mainlining of the "challenged" is just reversing a fairly recent trend towards seggregating them. Poverty hasn't increased, it has decreased - we've moved the line and we're providing much more assistance that we don't count. > Heh. IME I've always seen the opposite - computers were supposed to reduce the number of people needed for a task but small business need to hire an IT guy to take care of the system, thereby increasing the payroll. The NYC school district isn't a small biz.