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Hiking school aid draws praise yet no answers on funding

Hiking school aid draws praise yet no answers on funding

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BOSTON – Formula changes that would let more state money flow to local school districts won praise Friday from labor and school leaders who also acknowledged that covering the nearly $432 million cost of the revisions poses a challenge. Teachers union representatives, school committee members and administrators urged the Joint Committee on Education to support a bill that would implement adjustments to the school finance formula that were recommended last fall by the Foundation Budget Review Co

BOSTON – Formula changes that would let more state money flow to local school districts won praise Friday from labor and school leaders who also acknowledged that covering the nearly $432 million cost of the revisions poses a challenge. Teachers union representatives, school committee members and administrators urged the Joint Committee on Education to support a bill that would implement adjustments to the school finance formula that were recommended last fall by the Foundation Budget Review Co…