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08 Aug

Sending your kid back to school? It’s going to cost you

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Brooklyn’s Juliette Posner remembers the exact moment she realized just how broke public schools really are. Her daughter Merone graduated last spring from Manhattan’s LaGuardia High School, a performing-arts mecca and inspiration for both the film “Fame” and the TV series. But one day she came home with some surprising news. “The teacher ran out of paper,” Posner, 35, says. “They didn’t have any money for paper. I was like, ‘Really?’” Such is the reality of U.S. public schools, which have struggled in recent years as cash-strapped states contend with gutted tax revenues. …

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