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La Crosse schools get state funding, as 52% of students are “economically disadvantaged”

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The La Crosse School District achieves a distinction it might prefer not to have.

The new district budget passed by the school board this week includes $337,000 in state aid set aside for “high poverty” school systems.

State figures show about 52% of students in the La Crosse School District are defined as “economically disadvantaged.” A district automatically gets the aid once it passes 50% of students at the poverty level.

By comparison, about 30% of Onalaska’s students are disadvantaged, and 23% in the Holmen district are at that same level.

Milwaukee has 86% of its public school students at the poverty level, while Madison is at 51%.

The state aid is designed to reduce a district’s tax levy.

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