3 School funding under fire.

• Position: STATELINE - Brief article

A coalition of charter schools has sued New York, saying their students get less state funding than mainstream school students. The Northeast Charter Schools Network claims charter students receive as little as three-fifths of what district students receive in the same community, mainly because the state gives mainstream schools $2.7 billion annually for buildings and equipment, and doesn't give the same to the state's 250 charter schools...