One might suppose that a nation dedicated to education as the tool of upward mobility would indeed devote specific sums of money toward improving rural and small town schools and educational programs. Indeed. Congress so intended with the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. and the Migrant Education Act. among others. But the administration of those and other educational acts has been so warped by urban thinking and urban administrators. that the money is largely spent in urban school districts attempting to correct the presumed deficiencies of rural children forced off the land into cities. And this administrations answer has not been to improve the administration. but rather to cut back the programs.