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PETER MOST: The school funding formula that defies logic

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.

CONNECTIONS: Gilded Age crumbled of its own exclusivity

Even as the Berkshire cottages were being built, the seeds of the undoing of an American aristocracy were being planted.
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