Gotta love that spin. Poor school districts are "out of money" because nasty Republican governors are cutting their state aid ten times more than aid to affluent districts. Sounds horrible. But, of course, what's left unsaid is that the poor districts are the ones getting the money. If an affluent district isn't getting aid, then its "aid" budget isn't being cut at all. And the idea that schools are "out of money" is more spin. The schools aren't "out of money"; they aren't taking enough it to support their massive, bloated, administration-laden cost structures. That is the issue.
Eggs Ackley! Declining enrollment means the schools must downsize.
When kids don’t show up in school, the district doesn’t get the daily attendance money for that student. Minorities don’t show up, not even for the free food, and the school funding suffers.