""We're taking a close look at it," says PPS spokesman Jon Isaacs. "We definitely believe if an organization is raising money for staff in a school, they should be contributing to an equity fund, and we're reviewing whether there are similar fundraising organizations around the district.""

This is just par for the course for Carole Smith's dream world of happiness and rainbows, where parents who contribute to meaningfully improve their child's school (how dare they!) are sent off with little more than a polite but terse "thank you." This reveals Smith's love of equity-based mediocrity--she knows full well that parent giving will decline if funds intended for a particular school are rerouted to the district itself--she would rather that every school suffer under her pay-the-administrators-first budgeting than some succeed due to the generosity of their parents.