City’s magnet schools face budget shortfalls
New funding formulas leave schools scrambling
New Haven’s magnet schools recently won more than $6 million in federal grants, but they may lose that same amount — plus a third of their students in the next three years — as a result of a state budget reconfiguration.
Throughout the state, some leading municipal officials and education specialists are now sounding alarms over the budget’s provisions for funding magnet schools, which they say will deprive those schools of money and discourage suburban districts from sending their students to magnet districts.
In June state lawmakers increased education spending based on...
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