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New Report Grades Fairness of States’ School Funding

An Education Law Center report breaks down state-level school funding and where state education spending is the fairest, finding wide variations across the country.

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Pre-K teacher Josefina Pineda teaches her students the concept of "push" by having them join hands and push back and forth in her classroom at the Dallas Independent School District elementary school Cesar Chavez Learning Center in 2013.
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An Education Law Center report breaks down state-level school funding and where state education spending is the fairest, finding wide variations across the country. Its findings underline U.S. Department of Education data that showed several states fund high-income districts more than districts with high levels of poverty. (The Huffington Post)

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