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Report: LAUSD still not targeting enough funding toward high-needs kids
Students rallied outside the Los Angeles Unified School Board meeting on Tues., April 10, 2018, aiming to push district leaders to pass changes to the district's equity index.
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Report: LAUSD still not targeting enough funding toward high-needs kids
In the Los Angeles Unified School District, elementary schools are funded more equally than equitably, a report released Tuesday suggests. The analysis, released by a coalition of advocacy groups pushing the district to fund schools more progressively, finds L.A. Unified schools serving high-needs students in the largest numbers actually tend to get less funding per pupil than other, less-needy schools.
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