Raising standards would be the main priority of a Plaid government, Mr Jones said, pledging to concentrate resources on ending illiteracy among primary school leavers.
The Gingrich campaign had a strategy, of sorts: their hero would win the South, ending with a victory in Louisiana's primary on March 24th, whereupon momentum would work its magic.
Campaigners say that a tenth of primary schools now take advantage of the scheme, with numbers rising, but the European Commission is considering ending the subsidies because of a low take-up of the offer across the European Union.