In Ohio, a coalition of schools used litigation to pry millions of dollars out of the General Assembly for their own budgets. It was, they said, for the disadvantaged children. How, then, has that extra money been spent?

The Buckeye Institute took a look, and found a relationship between school poverty rates and amount of spending. Schools with a larger percentage of poor students received less money than those with fewer poor students.

That's not news, you say? I'll spell out the implication: you can't trust Ohio's school establishment in its current form to deliver the money to the place where, according to its own arguments, it needs to be the most.

Among the reasons cited by a team of authors, led by Matt Car: school labor policies result in the most senior (and thus highest-paid) teachers concentrating themselves in the schools with the easiest-to-teach populations.