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Shift on anti-poverty funds roils school district
- 11-10-2011
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By Maureen Magee/San Diego Union-Tribune
With education funds more scarce than ever, a proposed change to the distribution of federal money for poor students has stirred discourse among San Diego schools and their representatives. The school board poised to reverse a decision made last year to raise the campus poverty threshold for distributing federal Title I funds. San Diego Unified trustees Tuesday night fell short of adopting a proposal from trustee John Lee Evans to continue distributing the anti-poverty funds — as it has for years — on a sliding scale to schools where at least 40 percent of students qualify for free lunch. Evans and trustees Kevin Beiser and Scott Barnett agreed to bring the matter back for a vote Nov. 29 with hopes of finding some additional money for the schools with the most poor students. (more...)
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