With a few exceptions, the right, including the Bush administration with its education agenda, acknowledges the need to spend more money on the most disadvantaged schools.
One disadvantaged urban primary schools springs to mind.
Teachers in middle-class areas will move to disadvantaged schools if salaries in poor neighborhoods rise above suburban rates.
She also brought in the legacy posts, teaching positions for disadvantaged schools.
In economically disadvantaged schools, this means that they will foot the bill for any extra supplies.
The Software4Students programme started out solely helping disadvantaged schools.
But many don't go into teaching, and often our most disadvantaged schools don't get the benefit of the best new teachers.
This year, I will propose a new initiative to provide free tuition for students who commit to teach critical subjects in our most disadvantaged schools.
The program trains adult volunteers, ages 55 and older, to improve the academic success of students in economically disadvantaged public elementary schools.
It is very satisfying to know that the computers will be reused to benefit the education of children in disadvantaged schools.