The current system “has left rich school districts to flourish and poor school districts to founder,” Judge Moukawsher said,

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The current system “has left rich school districts to flourish and poor school districts to founder,” Judge Moukawsher said, betraying a promise in the State Constitution to give children a “fair opportunity for an elementary and secondary school education.”
Connecticut finances its schools with a combination of local property taxes and federal and state money in a way that is supposed to offset the huge disparities in property values between rich and poor towns. Bridgeport, ...
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