Christie May Replace Free-Lunch Use as Measure of Poverty
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is looking for a new way to measure student poverty as part of his plan to overhaul how school aid is distributed.
The state currently measures “at-risk students” by determining the number of children receiving free or reduced-price school lunches, and districts with students in that program get more aid. Those lunch counts are inaccurate and subject to fraud, Christie, 49, a first-term Republican, said today at a press conference in Trenton.