Bad math."Poor students are shortchanged by federal and state school aid policies," reports Nancy Zuckerbrod of the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. . Guaranteed minimum amounts go to small states, so Vermont Vermont (vərmŏnt`) [Fr.,=green mountain], New England state of the NE United States. It is bordered by New Hampshire, across the Connecticut R. gets "more money per poor student than do more populous pop·u·lous adj. Containing many people or inhabitants; having a large population. [Middle English, from Latin popul states." And states that spend more money for education generally get more dollars for their poor students than the states with more poor students. Maryland Maryland (mâr`ələnd), one of the Middle Atlantic states of the United States. It is bounded by Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean (E), the District of Columbia (S), Virginia and West Virginia (S, W), and Pennsylvania (N). , which has far fewer poor students than Arkansas, gets about 50 percent more federal aid per poor child--$1,522, compared to only $1,009 for Arkansas. |
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