[5] After the rise of the gambling industry in the county in the 1990s, an influx of tax revenue went into the school system.

According to the Fortune article, while "[m]ore kids are graduating from high school - there's no way to know for sure" whether a significant improvement had been made in the year 2007.

[7] Despite the influx of tax revenue, the article argues, Rosa Fort High in 2007 was "a stubborn underperformer.

The article concluded that "Rosa Fort students aren't a whole lot better off academically than before the casinos arrived.

And when you have been the poorest of the poor, well, an infusion of resources might lighten your load, but you still have the hangover.