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Suburban, higher–income school districts in Massachusetts have disproportionately benefited over the last decade from state building aid, a new report says.
The Boston Globe reports that the disparity in aid occurrred even though the suburbs had much lower levels of need when the state last surveyed its school facilities in 2016.
“Fixing the Foundation,” the report by the nonprofit think tanks MassINC and the Worcester Regional Research Bureau, says that the suburbs account for 43% of the state’s schools, but received 57% of invites into the state agency’s main large-scale building program from 2015 to 2024.
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