An Associated Press report claims the state underfunded Starkville School District by $12.08 million from Fiscal Year 2009-2015, making it one of 42 Mississippi school systems to have a combined gap of more than $10 million in funding in the same timeframe.
Since 2008, legislators have spent $1.5 billion less on education, the AP reported, and the likelihood of continued underfunding is high as estimates state Mississippi could come up $280 million short of fully funding its school systems next
Carl Smith covers Starkville and Oktibbeha County for The Dispatch. Follow him on Twitter @StarkDispatch
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