What's Up With Weighted Student Funding?

Not many seem to have noted that Hawaii has just become the first state in the US to implement a WSF plan -- albeit a single-district state. The roundup says that eight districts presently are piloting WSF programs, including Seattle, Houston and San Francisco, and that it's being used in Louisiana as part of the Katrina response.

Meanwhile, The Gadfly, respond to a blog post from EdWize (I think this may be the first time they've acknowledged the existence of blogs) and claims that many responses to its proposal have been alarmist (which is probably true).