As Federal Subsidies Wane, 'Secret City' Looks to the Future

By Lynn Schnaiberg

For more than half a century, the federal government has funneled millions of dollars each year into the high desert community of Los Alamos, N.M., and its public schools.

The reason? To sustain top-quality schools that would enable the government to recruit scientists to the federal laboratory that once housed World War II's biggest secret: the Manhattan Project. Los Alamos was created with the single purpose of building the first atomic bomb.

But the goal of federal officials is eventually to wean Los Alamos and its schools from the subsidies and create a self-sufficient community. ( "At School in the Secret City," ...