Using the number of students who receive free lunches may no longer be the best way to allocate funding for public school students who are at risk of failing academically, a new state audit concludes.
Free lunches have been used to determine at-risk funding for schools because the number of students in poverty and the number of students at risk of academic failure tended to be similar, the auditors said in their report to lawmakers.
But legislative auditors found that over time the program . . .
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