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Study finds school spending for rural Kentucky district not helping performance
(The Center Square) – A free-market-focused public policy group claims public school systems are receiving sufficient funding yet they’re not producing desired results. The Bluegrass Institute for Public Policy Solutions released the study on Jackson County Public Schools on Thursday. The district serving the southeastern Kentucky county, which has the 12th-lowest median income out of the state’s 120 counties, received $23,676 in per-student funding for the 2022-23 school year. That was $1,055 more per student than Fayette County Public Schools, the state’s second-largest district, received,...
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