Times have changed, but the formula remains stuck in 1949. The wealth disparities between neighboring towns simply did not exist at anything like their current scale. The founders of the regional school system could not have foreseen the inequity their formula has imposed on most towns today.
After observing some early research on the use of exclusion netting, the Berry Patch's co-owner Dale-Ila Riggs obtained a grant to test the use of the netting on her half-acre blueberry planting.