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scruple 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. math scores drop on major international test

Thank you. So, the funding chases the student, somehow?

dmurray 7 months ago [–]

The school gets paid for the number of students it has on its books. It's not difficult to imagine how this can "somehow" work operationally.

thaumasiotes 7 months ago | [–]

But if, theoretically, there were a way to count students, and also a hypothetical way to count money, someone might draw a correspondence between them?

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