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Despite the increase in state funding, the inequality in funding of school districts remained a severe problem that was related to the relative wealth or poverty of the individual states. South Carolina, one of the poorest states in the nation, for example, could not raise the funds necessary to finance schools on the level of a wealthy state such as Delaware. In 1935 the federal government commissioned a study of inequalities in education among the states. Under the leadership of educator Paul Mort, the National Survey of School Finance recommended that the national government provide foundation grants to the states, as the states had to their local school districts. Mort proposed an expenditure of $15 per pupil per year to help schools raise their level of instruction. Similarly, in 1936 Mississippi senator Patrick Harrison proposed a federal grant of $100 million to the states, but the bill was...
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