150K students missing, districts scramble to keep cash
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) When school started this fall, Ana Troya got a list of 105 Alief Independent School District students who hadn t showed up to Bush Elementary School.
She spent day after day driving around town trying to track down those students, each one of them worth about $5,500 in state funding for the district. We found a lot had moved and we assume it s because they either couldn t pay rent or they [found] job opportunities elsewhere, said Troya, a student support specialist at Communities In Schools. From the families we did get to see, they were struggling financially.