The issue focused on a public-school system in the state of New York, and the high-profile case of a 10-year-old who was sent to a public-school in a public-housing project, in a high-poverty, high-crime part of the city, in a system in which the public-school system is the only one of the most important in the state, in a system in which a great many of the children in the system are in the most need, in a