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Schools with poor conditions, overcrowding, and out of date spaces are much more common in Boston and the Gateway Cities yet the state’s suburban, higher-income school districts disproportionately benefit from state building aid, a new report says.
The disparity in aid happened over the last decade, according to the report by the nonprofit think tanks MassINC and the Worcester Regional Research Bureau. Yet the suburbs had much lower levels of need when the state last surveyed its school facilities in 2016, the report said. The organizations’ report builds on Boston Globe reporting from 2023 which found the Massachusetts School Building Authority had distributed significantly more money per student to majority-white districts than to more diverse districts.
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