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Stranded: How States Maroon Districts in Financial Distress

Report from @EdBuild: broken funding system leaves low-income school districts STRANDED

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Executive Summary

Over 21 million school-age children live within the bounds of a high-poverty school district, and many are still separated from educational resources by school district borders that segregate by socioeconomic status. In some areas, walking across a district boundary can mean a jump in the student poverty rate by as much as forty percentage points—the difference between…

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Reformulating the education fund The Mississippi House intends to recommend a new education funding formula that would require the state to spend $107 million more than it is spending this year to aid K-12 schools.