john irving said that what vermont was doing was marksism. he was so offended, he went out and helped start a private school for his kindergarten age son. if we start moving that money around, don't we risk losing some of these kids and having kids leave public schools and go to private schools no. >> that has happened in some cases. this has been on since the early 1970ed in california and spread to other states. in half of the states, they've been making moves to make education more equitable between school districts. that have been some of those consequences, but the question is i folks are saying what is the answer for schools that need more money? >> the ultimate answer would be to pump lots of education into the system for all of the schools. the problem is that money doesn't exist, so perhaps the next best solution is to take some money from higher performing schools, and shift it and it does help those underperforming schools. >> parent funded foundations, california has 6050 parent supported educational foundations. they play a very