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The state is facing the threat of a lawsuit by a coalition of counties, chiefly in the southern and southwestern part of the state over the issue of disparity in the quality of education offered in their counties compared to such counties as Fairfax.
The state’s funding formula attempts to deal with this issue by paying between 20 and 80 percent of the state’s calculation of the basic cost of meeting its “standards of quality.” The percentage a locality receives varies according to the “loSee
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