While the most successful schools spend more money per student than the least successful, a function of economic and geographical segregation, in the last eight years the federal government decided that it would rather mandate what it deemed to be a solution of higher standards for all students through No Child Left Behind's unfunded legislation than address systemic issues like poverty and racism, which are at the heart of the problem. ...

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