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NY court cuts school funds

The New York state Court of Appeals, in a 4-to-2 ruling, ordered the Pataki administration to pay $1.93 billion to New York City public schools, billions less than the funding that had been sought in a landmark lawsuit filed by the Campaign for Fiscal Equity in 1993. A lower court had previously ruled that the city needed $4.7 billion to educate nearly 1.1 million schoolchildren in the city.

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